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The effectiveness of Problem Animal Mitigation interventions around Karangara and Bujengwe Parishes, Kanungu District, Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, SW Uganda
(Bwindi Mgahinga Conservation Trust (BMCT), 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. ...
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 ...
A Preliminary Study of the Temporal and Spatial Biomass Patterns of Herbaceous Vegetation Consumed by Mountain Gorillas in an Afromontane Rain Forest
(Biotropica, 2009)
Although many animal species consume herbaceous vegetation found in African tropical forests, little is known of the temporal and spatial availability of these plants. From September 2004 to August 2005 we conducted a study ...
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 ...
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 ...
Linking Protected Area Conservation with Poverty Alleviation In Uganda: Integrated Conservation And Development at Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
(Nova Science Publishers, 2013)
This chapter we seek to review the Ugandan context of conservation-poverty linkages and evaluate ICD at Bwindi as a tool for achieving conservation through poverty alleviation. By identifying lessons learnt from Uganda and ...
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 ...
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 ...
Local People’s Attitudes And New Demands Since Inception Of Multiple Use Programme In Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, S. W. Uganda
(publication at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication, 2004-08)
Since the inception of multiple use programme in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (BINP) in 1994, many changes have taken place. Local community demands for resources from the park have changed and evidently the programme ...