Mburo National Park

Lake Mburo was originally gazetted in 1933 as a controlled hunting area and upgraded to a game reserve in 1963.[5][6] The region was settled by Banyankole Bahima pastoralists who traditionally herd Ankole cattle, and still do.[5][7] The residents continued to graze their cattle in the reserve, a situation decried by western conservationists, who termed them “invaders” in 1981, but were expelled from their lands after it was upgraded to national park status in 1983, as hoped for by some in the West