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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 ...
Links between anthropogenic perturbations and benthic macroinvertebrate assemblages in Afromontane forest streams in Uganda
(Springer 2006, 2006-03)
Relationships between environmental variables and benthic macroinvertebrate assemblages were investigated among several sites that varied in disturbance history in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, an Afromontane site in ...
Hydrological Systems in the Greater Virunga Landscape: Water Quality around Mikeno Sector
(Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY), 2016-03)
Monitoring of environmental parameters is one of the highest priorities in the evaluation of environmental status of water resources and in environmental protection policy. The main objectives are to understand and ...
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 ...
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 Survey of Burnt Areas in Bwindi Impenetrable and Mgahinga Gorilla National Parks, S. W. Uganda
(2001)
Fire has been one of the main management challenges and is considered one of the major long term threats to forest biodiversity in Bwindi Impenetrable and Mgahinga Gorilla National Parks. In June, July and August 2000 fire ...
A survey of burnt areas in Bwindi impenetrable and Mgahinga gorilla national parks, s. W. Uganda
(Institute of Tropical Forest Conservation, 2001)
Fire has been one of the main management challenges and is considered one of the
major long-term threats to forest biodiversity in Bwindi Impenetrable and Mgahinga
Gorilla National Parks. In June, July and August 2000 ...
Forest Fire Prevention and Control in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, South West Uganda
(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 ...
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 ...
Financing forest conservation in Uganda
(ETFRN NEWS, 2008-09)
Bwindi was gazetted as a national park in 1991. Inadequate consultation with local people led to protest and resentment about diminished access to resources (Hamilton et al. 2000). To reconcile conservation and community ...