Mabamba Bay

Mabamba Bay is a wetland on the edge of Lake Victoria, northwest of the Entebbe peninsula in a village called Kasanje.

[2][3] It covers an area of 2424 ha and is a home to over 300 bird species.

[4] Mabamba Swamp is famous for lungfish which is known as mamba in native language(Luganda).

[6] Key protected bird species in Mabamba are the shoebill, the blue swallow and the papyrus gonolek.

Mabamba swamp was internationally recognized by the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands the status of a ‘Wetland of International Importance’ since it contains globally threatened species in 2006.