Reports: Recent submissions
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A Survey of Hydrological Systems in the Great Virunga Landscape: Water resources assessment and use in and around Mgahinga Gorilla National Park and Echuya Central Forest Reserve, S.W Uganda
(2015)The Greater Virunga Landscape (GVL) is an interconnected chain of eleven protected areas that straddle the borders of Uganda, Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo. The landscape is famous for its mountain gorillas ... -
Strategic Plan 2017 - 2022
(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 ... -
Sustaining and Strengthening Conservation Capacity by Anticipating and Preparing for Change in the Greater Virunga Landscape
(2012-07-04)Executive summary The project “Sustaining and Strengthening Conservation Capacity by Anticipating and Preparing for Change in the Greater Virunga Landscape” has been successful in advancing the knowledge, capacity and ... -
Human-wildlife conflict management: Experiences and lessons learned from the greater virunga landscape
(2013)This study was conducted by the Institute of Tropical Forest Conservation (ITFC) of Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Uganda, with the support of the Greater Virunga Transboundary Secretariat, based in Kigali, ... -
The Ecological Implications of Harvesting Wild Climbers for Food Security products around Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, South Western Uganda
(Institute of Tropical Forest Conservation, 2019)Sustainable utilisation of Non Timber Forest Products (NTFPS) is a widely accepted Forestry management approach. Unfortunately the sustainability of NTFPS in high Demand like the wild climbers used by local communities is ... -
The Impact of Bwindi Mgahinga Conservation Trust and Uganda Wildlife Authority’s Funded Community Livelihood Projects in the Mitigation of Illegal Activities within Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
(Institute of Tropical Forest Conservation, 2021)Illegal resource access is a pressing biodiversity conservation and protected area management challenge. At Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (Bwindi) in south western Uganda, poaching and unauthorised access to forest ... -
The status of biodiversity in Echuya central Forest reserve, S.W Uganda
(2015)Uganda is losing biodiversity at an alarming rate. Habitat change and direct exploitation by humans are among the most important reasons for this crisis. Forest wildlife is particularly affected with a need for harmonious ... -
Weather patterns at Ruhija, Bwindi impenetrable national park, south west Uganda
(2000)This report describes the weather patterns of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park using data collected at ITFC from Ruhija. Two climatic parameters were used to describe the weather patterns at Ruhija and these are rainfall ... -
Drivers and Impacts of Climate Change on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in the GVL.
(2019)This study was undertaken under the Greater Virunga Transboundary Collaboration (GVTC) involving three partner states of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Rwanda and Uganda. The collaborative transboundary framework of ... -
An Assessment of the Effectiveness of Nkuringo Buffer Zone in Mitigating Crop Raiding Incidences around Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, S.W. Uganda.
(2015)In Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (BINP), a buffer zone strategy was introduced in Nkuringo (southern BINP) in 2005 to counter wild animal crop raiding incidences and to generate income for adjacent local people. This ... -
Albertine Conservation Status Report
(ARCOS Network, 2013)1. Introduction Between 2001 to 2003, under the facilitation of the Albertine Rift Conservation Society (ARCOS), in collaboration with a core group of international conservation organisations operating in the Albertine ... -
Impact of Water Harvesting on Kabiranyuma Swamp, Mgahinga Gorilla National Park, Southwest Uganda
(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 ... -
Community based monitoring report
(2015)This Community Based Monitoring (CBM) activity report presents the actual implementation of Uganda’s 2012 revenue sharing guidelines in the three parishes bordering Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. It also identifies key ... -
A Summary of the survey report of Hydrological Systems in the Great Virunga Landscape (Uganda, Rwanda and DRC)
(Institute of tropical forest conservation, 2015)Communities in the GVL face water shortages inspite of living adjacent major catchment areas. The water sources are unevenly distributed and few. Still much fewer water sources flow permanently. This makes the local community ... -
A scoping study of the Hydrological Systems for Lake Edward Basin- Bwindi Impenetrable and Queen Elizabeth National Parks, Southwestern Uganda
(Greater Virunga Transboundary Collaboration, 2015)The Greater Virunga Landscape (GVL) is an interconnected chain of eleven protected areas (PAs) straddling the borders of Uganda, Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) with endemic and endangered flora and fauna. ... -
A local assessment of the impacts of fifteen years of BMCT interventions
(BWINDI MGAHINGA CONSERVATION TRUST, 2013)This Assessment Project was solicited by the Bwindi Mgahinga Conservation Trust (BMCT, hereafter referred to as the Trust) to examine impacts of Trust interventions in the Bwindi and Mgahinga Conservation Area (BMCA) and ... -
Status and distribution of montane bamboo in Echuya central Forest reserve, S.W. Uganda
(2013-05)This report is a study of the bamboo population structure, disturbance factors affecting bamboo forest regeneration and the management options for the recovery of the dwindling bamboo stock in Echuya Central Forest ... -
Socio-economic and ecological baseline impact study of the reclaimed part of Sarambwe Nature Reserve after border reaffirmation
(Institute of Tropical Forest Conservation (ITFC) & Greater Virunga Transboundary Secretariat (GVTC, 2019-08)Sarambwe Nature Reserve (SNR) located in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is contiguous with Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (BINP) partly forming a corridor for wildlife such as mountain gorillas. As a result a ...
