Institute of Tropical Forest Conservation: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
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 ... -
A Summary of the survey report of Hydrological Systems in the Great Virunga Landscape (Uganda, Rwanda and DRC)
(Institute of tropical forest conservation, 2015)Communities in the GVL face water shortages inspite of living adjacent major catchment areas. The water sources are unevenly distributed and few. Still much fewer water sources flow permanently. This makes the local community ... -
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 preliminary assessment of large mammal and bird use of different habitats in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
(African Journal of Ecology, 2011)Understanding species distributions, habitat requirements, and population trends is helpful for implementing effective conservation. But expense often prevents such evaluations. Here, we present a preliminary assessment ... -
A new Automated Behavioural Response system to integrate playback experiments into camera trap studies
(Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2017)1. How animals respond to anthropogenic disturbances is a core component of conservation biology and how they respond to predators and competitors is equally of central importance to wildlife ecology. Camera traps have ... -
A local assessment of the impacts of fifteen years of BMCT interventions
(BWINDI MGAHINGA CONSERVATION TRUST, 2013)This Assessment Project was solicited by the Bwindi Mgahinga Conservation Trust (BMCT, hereafter referred to as the Trust) to examine impacts of Trust interventions in the Bwindi and Mgahinga Conservation Area (BMCA) and ... -
A variable edge effect on trees of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda, and its bearing on measurement parameters
(Biological Conservation, 2009-01-21)With tropical forests under increased pressure from fragmentation and nascent effects of climate change, it is imperative to reliably predict change for timely reduction of impacts. This depends on measuring the right ... -
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 ... -
Variability of Soil Organic Carbon stocks under different land uses: A study in an afro-montane landscape in southwestern Uganda
(Geoderma, 2013)We explore and compare quantities and patterns of Soil Organic Carbon (SOC) in protected forest and neighboring land around Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (a mountain protected area in Southwestern Uganda). We assessed ... -
Dynamics of forest cover conversion in and around Bwindi impenetrable forest, Southwestern Uganda
(Journal of Applied Sciences and Environmental Management, 2011)Forest cover has been converted to agricultural land use in and around the protected areas of Uganda. The objectives of this study were; to examine the dynamics of forest cover change in and around Bwindi impenetrable ... -
Cryptosporidium and giardia species in newly and previously habituated gorillas and nearby water sources in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda
(Pan African Medical Journal, 2019-10)Introduction: cryptosporidium and giardia are of great one health significance and major cause of protozoan diarrhea in humans and primates; they are found in the faecal matter of animals and humans and also in contaminated ... -
Status and distribution of montane bamboo in Echuya central Forest reserve, S.W. Uganda
(2013-05)This report is a study of the bamboo population structure, disturbance factors affecting bamboo forest regeneration and the management options for the recovery of the dwindling bamboo stock in Echuya Central Forest ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...
