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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 ...
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 ...
The effectiveness of Problem Animal Mitigation interventions around Karangara and Bujengwe Parishes, Kanungu District, Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, SW Uganda
(Bwindi Mgahinga Conservation Trust, 2019-01)
Around Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (BINP), wild animals such as gorillas, elephants, baboons and bush pigs occasionally come out of the forest to into settlements to raid crops and but also end up harming human beings. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...