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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 ... -
African golden cats, citizen science, and serendipity: tapping the camera trap revolution
(South African Journal of Wildlife Research-24-month delayed open access, 2013)The use of camera traps for wildlife research and monitoring is increasing and this is yielding significant observations at an accelerating pace. Yet many potentially valuable observations are overlooked, misinterpreted ... -
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 ... -
Annual cycles are the most common reproductive strategy in African tropical tree communities
(Bwindi Mgahinga Conservation Trust, 2018-03-27)This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved ABSTRACT We present the first cross continental comparison of the flowering and fruiting phenology of tropical forests across Africa. Flowering events of 5446 ... -
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 ... -
An Assessment of the Effectiveness ofNkuringoBufferZone in MitigatingCrop Raiding Incidencesaround Bwindi ImpenetrableNational Park, S.W. Uganda
(Mbarara University of Science and Technology, 2015-03)In Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (BINP), a buffer zone strategy was introduced in Nkuringo(southern BINP)in 2005to counter wild animal crop raiding incidences and to generate in come for adjacent local people. This ... -
An Assessment of the Status of Exotic Plant Species and Natural Vegetation Types of Mgahinga Gorilla National Park, South-Western Uganda.
(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. ... -
Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests
(Nature, 2020-03-04)Structurally intact tropical forests sequestered about half of the global terrestrial carbon uptake over the 1990s and early 2000s, removing about 15 per cent of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions1–3. Climate-driven ... -
The Availability and Distribution of Fruit and Non-Fruit Plant Resources in Bwindi: their Influence on Gorilla Habitat Use and Food Choice
(2005)Gorillas (Gorilla gorilla) are the largest extant apes, whose 2 species and 4 subspecies are all highly endangered. Relatively little is know about the mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei) of Bwindi Impenetrable ... -
Bamboo for people, Mountain gorillas, and golden monkeys: Evaluating harvest and conservation trade-offs and synergies in the Virunga Volcanoes
(Institute of Tropical Forest Conservation,, 2011-10-10)There are conflicting demands on bamboo (Yushania alpina(K. Schum.) Lin.) in Mgahinga Gorilla National Park (Virunga Volcanoes), Uganda. Local people lost legal access to bamboo when the park was gazetted in 1991 – but ... -
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 ... -
Can Governance in Revenue Sharing Be a Pathway for a Win-win Situation between People’s Livelihood Improvement and Conservation?
(Journal of Social Science Research, 2015-05-25)This paper establishes the importance of good governance in improving local livelihoods and support for conservation. The study uses empirical realities from Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, an afromontane Gorilla sanctuary ... -
Can Governance in Revenue Sharing Be a Pathway for a Win-win Situation between People’s Livelihood Improvement and Conservation?
(2005)This paper establishes the importance of good governance in improving local livelihoods and support for conservation. The study uses empirical realities from Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, an afromontne Gorilla sanctuary ... -
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 ... -
Changes in floristic composition, diversity and anthropogenic perturbations in an east African tropical forest
(African Journal of Ecology, 2023)We assessed changes in floristic composition, diversity and anthropogenic activities in an East African forest; Echuya Central Forest Reserve (ECFR). Using 272 permanent sample plots, comparisons between 2015 and 2021 were ... -
Chimpanzees in Bwindi-Impenetrable National Park, Uganda, Use Different Tools to Obtain Different Types of Honey
(Primates, 2000)Evidence of tool use for foraging for honey by chimpanzees in Bwindi-Impenetrable National Park, Uganda, is reported. These are the first records of tool use by chimpanzees in this region of the Albertine Rift. Tools of ... -
Co-limitation towards lower latitudes shapes global forest diversity gradients
(Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2022-08)The latitudinal diversity gradient (LDG) is one of the most recognized global patterns of species richness exhibited across a wide range of taxa. Numerous hypotheses have been proposed in the past two centuries to explain ... -
Combining camera trap surveys and IUCN range maps to improve knowledge of species distributions
(Conservation Biology, 2023)Reliable maps of species distributions are fundamental for biodiversity research and conservation. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List range maps are widely recognized as authoritative ... -
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 ...
