THE WILD FAUNA OF THE EMPIRE. 



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No. 8. 



EXTRACT FROM THE REPORT OF COL. HAYES 

 SADLER FOR THE UGANDA PROTECTORATE 

 FOR THE YEARS 1902 AND 1903. 



PRESERVATION OF GAME. 



The Game Regulations, which have now been in 

 force for the last three years, have worked well, and 

 no instance has been brought to notice during the 

 year of any breach of the rules by sportsmen, in the 

 tracts immediately under our control the provisions 

 of the Regulations have been fairly well kept by the 

 natives, but in the more distant parts, where we 

 Rre unable to exercise supervision, I regret to say 

 this has not always been the case. 



The most direct result of the Regulations has 

 been to afford partial immunity to the large herds 

 of elephants in the Western province, which are 

 now, consequently, said to be on the increase. 

 These herds roam at different seasons of the year 

 alotiff the Western shore of Lake Albert, between 

 Unyoro, Toro and Ankole, and these districts, with 

 the Nile province, afford perhaps the best field in 

 this part of Africa to the sportsman anxious to 

 secure a large pair of tusks. But, whilst pre- 

 serving the elephant, we have also to think of 

 the people. Latterly, and as a practical result 

 of protection, many complaints have been received 

 of damage done to shambas and cultivation by 

 elephants, plantations being destroyed, and, in 

 several instances, habitations and villages being 

 deserted. The matter has been taken up, and 



