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).[5]
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.[8]