Peter Flack takes a Ssese Island Sitatunga

Peter Flack returned at the end of August from a successful hunt for Africa's rarest spiral horned antelope, the Ssese Island Sitatunga (Tragelaphus spekei sylvestris) on the Ssese Island archipelago in Lake Victoria.

He is only the fifth hunter to hunt these elusive animals since the species has been re-opened for hunting by Uganda Wildlife.

Peter was assisted on his hunt by PH Grant Roodt of Lake Albert Safaris and he managed to get a representative mature sitatunga bull of 20 inches on the third day of his hunt.



Reading Flack's report, it is clear that there is huge degradation of the sitatunga's environment taking place on the islands and the hunting facilities are not yet up to scratch. Once can only hope that this situation improves.

His report written for the African Indaba newsletter can be read here.