We went hunting buffaloes and I was left for dead

Julius Tumushabe feeding pigs at his home in Gwerere village, Kanungo District, West Uganda.

Julius Tumushabe vividly recalls the two nights he spent in the wilderness after a hunting spree turned into an endless nightmare. He was then a poacher.

But surviving by a whisker inside Queen Elizabeth National Park in Western Uganda, is an experience the 42-year-old father of eight, would not wish on his worst enemy.