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    • An Assessment of the Status of Exotic Plant Species and Natural Vegetation Types of Mgahinga Gorilla National Park, South-Western Uganda. 

      Lejju, Julius Bunny; Sangster, Lucy (1999)
      Mgahinga Gorilla National Park (MGNP) is an afromontane forest region in south-west Uganda on the slopes of the Virunga volcanoes, characterised by a great diversity of habitat types associated with its altitudinal range. ...
    • Development and gorillas? 

      Blomley, Tom; Namara, Agrippinah; McNeilage, Alastair; Franks, Phil; Rainer, Helga; Donaldson, Andrew; Malpas, Rob; Olupot, William; Baker, Julia; Sandbrook, Chris; Bitariho, Robert; Infield, Mark (International Institute for Environment and Development, 2010)
      Bwindi Impenetrable National Park and Mgahinga Gorilla National Park are two afromontane forests considered as extremely important biodiversity areas, with global significance, due to their population of highly endangered ...
    • Forest Fire Prevention and Control in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, South West Uganda 

      Bitariho, Robert; Kasangaki, Aventino; Babaasa, Dennis (Institute of Tropical Forest Conservation – Ecological Monitoring Programme, 2000)
      Worldwide, extensive tracts of tropical rain forests are burnt during El Nino droughts. Severe dro ughts have occurred previously without causing such extensive fires. This extensive burning is a result of forests becoming ...
    • Harvesting of wild climbers, food security and ecological implications in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, S.W uganda 

      Bitariho, Robert; Akampurira, Emmanuel (Bwindi Mgahinga Conservation Trust, 2019-01)
      Humans have harvested wild climbers from forests for subsistence and commercial use for thousands of years. In the early four decades, wild climbers were considered a “nuisance” by foresters claiming they suppressed timber ...
    • Impact of Water Harvesting on Kabiranyuma Swamp, Mgahinga Gorilla National Park, Southwest Uganda 

      Bitariho, Robert; Babaasa, Dennis; Kasangaki, Aventino (2003-08)
      Kabiranyuma swamp is one of the rarest afromontane swamp habitats in Uganda. The swamp is a major source of water for the Kabiranyuma Gravity Water Scheme that supplies water to over 21,000 people around Mgahinga Gorilla ...
    • Long-term ecological and socio-economic Changes in and around bwindi impenetrable National park, south-western Uganda 

      Kasangaki, A.; Bitariho, Robert; Shaw, P.; Robbins, M; McNeilage, A (The ecological impact of long-term changes in Africa’s rift valley, 2012)
      Bwindi Impenetrable National Park is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and is well known among conservationists because of its unique biodiversity that includes approximately half the world’s population of mountain of gorillas. ...
    • Minerals in the Foods Eaten by Mountain Gorillas (Gorilla beringei) 

      Cancelliere, Emma C.; DeAngelis, Nicole; Nkurunungi, John Bosco; Raubenheimer, David; Rothman, Jessica M. (PLoS ONE, 2014)
      Minerals are critical to an individual’s health and fitness, and yet little is known about mineral nutrition and requirements in free-ranging primates. We estimated the mineral content of foods consumed by mountain gorillas ...
    • The Parasites of the Gorillas in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park^ Uganda 

      Rothman, Jessica M.; Bowman, Dwight D.; Zikusoka, Gladys Kalema; Nkurunungi, John Bosco (In Primates of Western Uganda, 2006)
      Detecting disease threats to endangered species and their ecosystems plays a crucial role in the survival of a population (McCallum & Dobson, 1995). As human pressure increases around and within habitats that contain ...
    • Strategic Plan 2017 - 2022 

      Unknown author (Instutute of Tropical Forest Conservation, 2022)
      The Institute of Tropical Forest Conservation (ITFC) is a leading Ugandan research institution working primarily for biodiversity conservation and the sustainable management of natural resources in and around the protected ...