Reports: Recent submissions
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Dental Macrowear in Catarrhine Primates: variability across species
(publication at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication, 2018-04)Dental macrowear is caused by a cumulative loss of enamel and dentine, principally due to attrition and abrasion, reflecting the interaction between feeding behavior and a species’ environment [1,2]. Previous studies have ... -
Gap characteristics and regeneration in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda
(African Journal of Ecology, 2004)Before Bwindi Impenetrable forest, Uganda, became a national park in 1991, there was a high level of human activity in much of the forest, especially cutting of large trees for timber by pit sawyers. This created extensive ... -
Plant harvest impacts and sustainability in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, S.W. Uganda
(Institute of Tropical Forest Conservation, 2006)Sustainable utilization of forest resources has been widely adopted as a conservation strategy, but that sustainability has rarely been empirically tested. Plant resource extraction from Bwindi Impenetrable National Park ... -
Regulated access to wild climbers has enhanced food security and minimized use of plastics by front line households at a premier African protected area
(Institute of Tropical Forest Conservation,, 2020-08)The amount of food harvested, processed and stored by households determines food availability—a key dimension to food security. In developing countries,front line households around protected areas harvest wild climbers for ... -
Socio-Economic And Ecological Implications Of Local People’s Use Of Bwindi Forest In South Western Uganda
(Mbarara University of Science and Technology, 2013-01)Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (hereafter called Bwindi) is an Afromontane forest that has probably existed since the Pleistocene and Holocene times. The forest was first used by Batwa for ... -
Some Initial Observations Concerning the African Wild BananaEnsete ventricosumasa Resource for Vertebrates
(Institute of Tropical Forest Conservation, 2019-09)The ecological role and significance of “African wild bananas”Ensete ventricosum (Welw.) Cheesman (Musaceae) are unknown.We considered if E. ventricosum, with its sustained flowering and fruiting, might act in some ways ... -
Tangible benefits or token gestures: does Bwindi impenetrable National Park's long established multiple use programme benefit the poor?
(Published by Taylor&Francis, 2015-10)Trade and use of Non-timber forest products (NTFPs) has often been suggested as a means through which forest dependent people can improve their livelihoods to overcome poverty. Many projects have indeed promoted trade and ... -
The Potential Supply Of Plant Resources For Local Community Use In Queen Elizabeth Protected Area, Western Uganda
(Institute of Tropical Forest Conservation, 2007-02)Plant resources for local community use in Queen Elizabeth Protected Area (QEPA) have been designated in areas called integrated resource use zones. The integrated resource use zones of QEPA are the four islands on Lake ... -
Woodlot management and livelihoods in a tropical conservation landscape
(Kungl online publication, 2020-12)In biodiversity hot spots, there is often tension between human needs and conservation, exacerbated when protected areas prevent access to natural resources. Forest-dependent people may compensate for exclusion by ... -
Census of the mountain gorilla Gorilla beringei beringei population in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda
(Oryx, 2006-10-04)Abstract Mountain gorillas Gorilla beringei beringei are Critically Endangered, with just two small populations: in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in south-western Uganda and the nearby Virunga Volcanoes on the borders ... -
Bwindi-Sarambwe 2018 Surveys Monitoring Mountain Gorillas, Other Select Mammals, and Human Activities
(Bwindi Impenetrable National park, 2019-12-19)Long-term monitoring of wildlife populations allows population trends to be characterized from periodic robust abundance estimates. Based on those derived trends, conservation status of the species and conservation efforts ... -
Abundance, Distribution, Utilisation and Conservation of Sinarundinaria alpinain Bwindi and Mgahinga Forest National Parks, South West Uganda
(.ethnobotanyjournal.org/vol3/, 2005)Sinarundinaria alpina (Schumann) C.S. Chao & Renvoise, a tropical African montane bamboo, is heavily used by lo-cal communities for household items such as granaries, baskets, ropes and trays. This article presents ... -
A Rapid Assessment and Evaluation of Attitudes, Motivations and Impactsof HUGOmembersin the Mitigation of Human Wildlife Conflict around Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, S.W.Uganda
(International Gorilla Conservation Programme (IGCP), 2018-08)The major cause of human-wildlife conflict(HWC)worldwide is the competition between the ever-increasing human populations and wildlife competing for the same declining living spaces and resources. In Bwindi ...
