Jonathan Benaiah (alias The Ugandan Tourist)
@ahajonathan.bsky.social
Conservation Storyteller | Docu & Wildlife Filmmaker | Experienced Bushman | Featured on Forbes NPR IMDb Filmfreeway | 📧 contact@jonathanbenaiah.com
“Hope in the Mist.”
A tribute to Dr. Jane Goodall — and a reflection on a few other stories from the wild.
There’s beauty, there’s loss, and there’s still hope.
🎙️ Listen now — available wherever you get your podcasts bit.ly/4q21hHa
🌍🦍🦏
A tribute to Dr. Jane Goodall — and a reflection on a few other stories from the wild.
There’s beauty, there’s loss, and there’s still hope.
🎙️ Listen now — available wherever you get your podcasts bit.ly/4q21hHa
🌍🦍🦏
October 6, 2025 at 4:54 PM
“Hope in the Mist.”
A tribute to Dr. Jane Goodall — and a reflection on a few other stories from the wild.
There’s beauty, there’s loss, and there’s still hope.
🎙️ Listen now — available wherever you get your podcasts bit.ly/4q21hHa
🌍🦍🦏
A tribute to Dr. Jane Goodall — and a reflection on a few other stories from the wild.
There’s beauty, there’s loss, and there’s still hope.
🎙️ Listen now — available wherever you get your podcasts bit.ly/4q21hHa
🌍🦍🦏
Slightly over a week ago (at the time of filming this), this little one was born. So fragile, so dependent, yet so full of meaning.
Many years of conservation; the tangible results of people at the Uganda Wildlife Authority working hard to give mountain gorillas a chance.
🎥 bit.ly/mtgorillababy
Many years of conservation; the tangible results of people at the Uganda Wildlife Authority working hard to give mountain gorillas a chance.
🎥 bit.ly/mtgorillababy
October 2, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Slightly over a week ago (at the time of filming this), this little one was born. So fragile, so dependent, yet so full of meaning.
Many years of conservation; the tangible results of people at the Uganda Wildlife Authority working hard to give mountain gorillas a chance.
🎥 bit.ly/mtgorillababy
Many years of conservation; the tangible results of people at the Uganda Wildlife Authority working hard to give mountain gorillas a chance.
🎥 bit.ly/mtgorillababy
Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE inspired many of us to do better everyday; not just for our natural world. A great life, truly lived well!
October 1, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE inspired many of us to do better everyday; not just for our natural world. A great life, truly lived well!
Lauded as a conservationist and condemned as a big-game hunter, in 1909, Theodore Roosevelt, (26th U.S. president) hunted rhinos in northwest Uganda, the same area rhinos are now being reintroduced.
An interesting read in this week's Smithsonian Magazine
🔗 www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-...
An interesting read in this week's Smithsonian Magazine
🔗 www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-...
September 26, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Lauded as a conservationist and condemned as a big-game hunter, in 1909, Theodore Roosevelt, (26th U.S. president) hunted rhinos in northwest Uganda, the same area rhinos are now being reintroduced.
An interesting read in this week's Smithsonian Magazine
🔗 www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-...
An interesting read in this week's Smithsonian Magazine
🔗 www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-...
🔌 a very special place
September 8, 2025 at 9:10 AM
🔌 a very special place
Faces of the rainforest
📍 Bwindi
🌍 UGANDA
📍 Bwindi
🌍 UGANDA
August 15, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Faces of the rainforest
📍 Bwindi
🌍 UGANDA
📍 Bwindi
🌍 UGANDA
“Do Uganda’s Rangers Kill In The Name Of Conservation?” - an interesting watch via @AlJazeera youtu.be/-CgH6JcMT5w?...
August 1, 2025 at 3:44 PM
“Do Uganda’s Rangers Kill In The Name Of Conservation?” - an interesting watch via @AlJazeera youtu.be/-CgH6JcMT5w?...
Enjoy: “River Nile Ambience”
🔗 bit.ly/4edaBSV
This nature album includes the distant rumbling of both Murchison & Uhuru waterfalls, hippos walking and honking in the night, primate calls, beautiful birdsong, night & dawn chorus, a huge herd of elephants arrives to bathe in the Nile, and more…
🔗 bit.ly/4edaBSV
This nature album includes the distant rumbling of both Murchison & Uhuru waterfalls, hippos walking and honking in the night, primate calls, beautiful birdsong, night & dawn chorus, a huge herd of elephants arrives to bathe in the Nile, and more…
June 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Enjoy: “River Nile Ambience”
🔗 bit.ly/4edaBSV
This nature album includes the distant rumbling of both Murchison & Uhuru waterfalls, hippos walking and honking in the night, primate calls, beautiful birdsong, night & dawn chorus, a huge herd of elephants arrives to bathe in the Nile, and more…
🔗 bit.ly/4edaBSV
This nature album includes the distant rumbling of both Murchison & Uhuru waterfalls, hippos walking and honking in the night, primate calls, beautiful birdsong, night & dawn chorus, a huge herd of elephants arrives to bathe in the Nile, and more…
We are filming on the Nile this week with the stunning Hemingway’s Luxury Tented Camp. Love love love it here!
📍 Murchison Falls National Park
🌍 UGANDA
🎥 youtu.be/hgxH-Ec62qg
📍 Murchison Falls National Park
🌍 UGANDA
🎥 youtu.be/hgxH-Ec62qg
June 17, 2025 at 7:08 PM
We are filming on the Nile this week with the stunning Hemingway’s Luxury Tented Camp. Love love love it here!
📍 Murchison Falls National Park
🌍 UGANDA
🎥 youtu.be/hgxH-Ec62qg
📍 Murchison Falls National Park
🌍 UGANDA
🎥 youtu.be/hgxH-Ec62qg
Listen to my conversation with the amazing Dr. @elodiefreymann.bsky.social (PhD) — primatologist, science storyteller, and member of The Explorers Club — We chat her jaw-dropping study about self-healing among chimpanzees in Uganda. 🌳
🎧 Listen: amzn.to/4kOoglA
🎥 Watch: bit.ly/3HuTcJe
🎧 Listen: amzn.to/4kOoglA
🎥 Watch: bit.ly/3HuTcJe
June 8, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Listen to my conversation with the amazing Dr. @elodiefreymann.bsky.social (PhD) — primatologist, science storyteller, and member of The Explorers Club — We chat her jaw-dropping study about self-healing among chimpanzees in Uganda. 🌳
🎧 Listen: amzn.to/4kOoglA
🎥 Watch: bit.ly/3HuTcJe
🎧 Listen: amzn.to/4kOoglA
🎥 Watch: bit.ly/3HuTcJe
Saints or Rebels? Ssekabaka Mwanga's side of the #UgandaMartyrs story
Earlier this year I had the pleasure of interviewing some awesome folks on Buganda history. Here’s a thought-provoking excerpt from that series as we commemorate #MartyrsDay2025
🎥 bit.ly/3ZJvwqE
Earlier this year I had the pleasure of interviewing some awesome folks on Buganda history. Here’s a thought-provoking excerpt from that series as we commemorate #MartyrsDay2025
🎥 bit.ly/3ZJvwqE
June 3, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Saints or Rebels? Ssekabaka Mwanga's side of the #UgandaMartyrs story
Earlier this year I had the pleasure of interviewing some awesome folks on Buganda history. Here’s a thought-provoking excerpt from that series as we commemorate #MartyrsDay2025
🎥 bit.ly/3ZJvwqE
Earlier this year I had the pleasure of interviewing some awesome folks on Buganda history. Here’s a thought-provoking excerpt from that series as we commemorate #MartyrsDay2025
🎥 bit.ly/3ZJvwqE
This Sunday I speak to Dr. @elodiefreymann.bsky.social (PhD) — primatologist, science storyteller, and member of The Explorers Club — We discuss her groundbreaking study on how wild chimpanzees in Uganda are self-medicating.
TRAILER 👇
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🎙️ apple.co/44ZWwFW
🎥 bit.ly/3Ho7MlJ
TRAILER 👇
🎙️ amzn.to/4kQXuZT
🎙️ apple.co/44ZWwFW
🎥 bit.ly/3Ho7MlJ
June 2, 2025 at 3:40 PM
This Sunday I speak to Dr. @elodiefreymann.bsky.social (PhD) — primatologist, science storyteller, and member of The Explorers Club — We discuss her groundbreaking study on how wild chimpanzees in Uganda are self-medicating.
TRAILER 👇
🎙️ amzn.to/4kQXuZT
🎙️ apple.co/44ZWwFW
🎥 bit.ly/3Ho7MlJ
TRAILER 👇
🎙️ amzn.to/4kQXuZT
🎙️ apple.co/44ZWwFW
🎥 bit.ly/3Ho7MlJ
Malwa tales…😅
Towards the end of last year I was invited by Producer Anne Kirya to record sound for a special segment in Kampala; part of a cool episode - "The Return of the Ancient Brews," by famous show - America’s @testkitchen
Now AVAILABLE
🔗 bit.ly/3YWlCSh
🎙️@ZoomSoundLab & @Sennheiser gear
Towards the end of last year I was invited by Producer Anne Kirya to record sound for a special segment in Kampala; part of a cool episode - "The Return of the Ancient Brews," by famous show - America’s @testkitchen
Now AVAILABLE
🔗 bit.ly/3YWlCSh
🎙️@ZoomSoundLab & @Sennheiser gear
May 23, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Malwa tales…😅
Towards the end of last year I was invited by Producer Anne Kirya to record sound for a special segment in Kampala; part of a cool episode - "The Return of the Ancient Brews," by famous show - America’s @testkitchen
Now AVAILABLE
🔗 bit.ly/3YWlCSh
🎙️@ZoomSoundLab & @Sennheiser gear
Towards the end of last year I was invited by Producer Anne Kirya to record sound for a special segment in Kampala; part of a cool episode - "The Return of the Ancient Brews," by famous show - America’s @testkitchen
Now AVAILABLE
🔗 bit.ly/3YWlCSh
🎙️@ZoomSoundLab & @Sennheiser gear
April 26, 2025 at 7:13 AM
April 23, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Frames from Southwest Uganda — a place of both color and contour.
Those ancient sentinels — Muhabura, Gahinga, Sabyinyo — ancient mountains that once, like a natural compass, guided journeys through this part of Africa. Simply stunning!
📍 Kisoro
🌍 UGANDA
Those ancient sentinels — Muhabura, Gahinga, Sabyinyo — ancient mountains that once, like a natural compass, guided journeys through this part of Africa. Simply stunning!
📍 Kisoro
🌍 UGANDA
April 6, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Frames from Southwest Uganda — a place of both color and contour.
Those ancient sentinels — Muhabura, Gahinga, Sabyinyo — ancient mountains that once, like a natural compass, guided journeys through this part of Africa. Simply stunning!
📍 Kisoro
🌍 UGANDA
Those ancient sentinels — Muhabura, Gahinga, Sabyinyo — ancient mountains that once, like a natural compass, guided journeys through this part of Africa. Simply stunning!
📍 Kisoro
🌍 UGANDA
This level of plotting by the British is astounding.
Here’s an intriguing excerpt from an old journal I came across some time ago—now preserved in antiquity. It predicts how ‘Mweso – The Board Game’ played by ‘the untutored savage’ would fall into desuetude.
Here’s an intriguing excerpt from an old journal I came across some time ago—now preserved in antiquity. It predicts how ‘Mweso – The Board Game’ played by ‘the untutored savage’ would fall into desuetude.
April 4, 2025 at 3:38 PM
This level of plotting by the British is astounding.
Here’s an intriguing excerpt from an old journal I came across some time ago—now preserved in antiquity. It predicts how ‘Mweso – The Board Game’ played by ‘the untutored savage’ would fall into desuetude.
Here’s an intriguing excerpt from an old journal I came across some time ago—now preserved in antiquity. It predicts how ‘Mweso – The Board Game’ played by ‘the untutored savage’ would fall into desuetude.
I had the pleasure of recording sound for this episode of the SPOOKED Podcast a while back. I’ve been part of some crazy stories but this one about night dancers in Uganda was wild, eh! 🙆🏾♂️😂 Hapaana.
Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/ug/podcast/s...
Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/ug/podcast/s...
March 17, 2025 at 11:43 AM
I had the pleasure of recording sound for this episode of the SPOOKED Podcast a while back. I’ve been part of some crazy stories but this one about night dancers in Uganda was wild, eh! 🙆🏾♂️😂 Hapaana.
Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/ug/podcast/s...
Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/ug/podcast/s...
Afternoon stroll around a small forest close to home. Captured some Great Blue Turaco sounds. Sound sample in the post 👇
🔈 Tree-ear Setup: Zoom F3 + Omnis
🔈 Tree-ear Setup: Zoom F3 + Omnis
February 9, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Afternoon stroll around a small forest close to home. Captured some Great Blue Turaco sounds. Sound sample in the post 👇
🔈 Tree-ear Setup: Zoom F3 + Omnis
🔈 Tree-ear Setup: Zoom F3 + Omnis
Sacred ground. Glad to see visitors slowly returning here. Thanks Buganda Heritage & Tourism Board for the invite and for showing me around.
📍 Amasiro ga Bassekabaka ba Buganda
📍 Tombs of Buganda Kings
🔎 @unesconow.bsky.social World Heritage Site
🌍 Kasubi, UGANDA
📍 Amasiro ga Bassekabaka ba Buganda
📍 Tombs of Buganda Kings
🔎 @unesconow.bsky.social World Heritage Site
🌍 Kasubi, UGANDA
January 9, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Sacred ground. Glad to see visitors slowly returning here. Thanks Buganda Heritage & Tourism Board for the invite and for showing me around.
📍 Amasiro ga Bassekabaka ba Buganda
📍 Tombs of Buganda Kings
🔎 @unesconow.bsky.social World Heritage Site
🌍 Kasubi, UGANDA
📍 Amasiro ga Bassekabaka ba Buganda
📍 Tombs of Buganda Kings
🔎 @unesconow.bsky.social World Heritage Site
🌍 Kasubi, UGANDA
Just updated the showreel. Thanks to all the awesome people with whom we’ve collaborated all throughout the year and cheers to many more in 2025.
Feel free to watch it here and also share youtu.be/X6F1GifcFAk?... via @YouTube
Feel free to watch it here and also share youtu.be/X6F1GifcFAk?... via @YouTube
December 30, 2024 at 4:06 PM
Just updated the showreel. Thanks to all the awesome people with whom we’ve collaborated all throughout the year and cheers to many more in 2025.
Feel free to watch it here and also share youtu.be/X6F1GifcFAk?... via @YouTube
Feel free to watch it here and also share youtu.be/X6F1GifcFAk?... via @YouTube
Ahead of The International Day of Veterinary Medicine, I speak to Dr. Kia Martina as part of a two-part series around the life of wildlife veterinarians.
This episode is available this Sunday!
Listen to the trailer here:
🎙️ amzn.to/3ZEIEOj
🎧 apple.co/49uOpS6
This episode is available this Sunday!
Listen to the trailer here:
🎙️ amzn.to/3ZEIEOj
🎧 apple.co/49uOpS6
December 7, 2024 at 9:06 AM
Ahead of The International Day of Veterinary Medicine, I speak to Dr. Kia Martina as part of a two-part series around the life of wildlife veterinarians.
This episode is available this Sunday!
Listen to the trailer here:
🎙️ amzn.to/3ZEIEOj
🎧 apple.co/49uOpS6
This episode is available this Sunday!
Listen to the trailer here:
🎙️ amzn.to/3ZEIEOj
🎧 apple.co/49uOpS6