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Three new mountain national parks for Uganda

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2009

Thomas M. Butynski  and
Jan Kalina
Thomas M. Butynski
Affiliation:
World Wide Fund for Nature, Institute of Tropical Forest Conservation, PO Box 7487, Kampala, Uganda.
Jan Kalina
Affiliation:
Development Through Conservation Project, CARE-Uganda, PO Box 7280, Kampala, Uganda.
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For many years the Fauna and Flora Preservation Society has supported efforts to conserve forests in the Albertine Rift Afromontane Region of east-central Africa. The biodiversity of these forests is especially high but most have been destroyed or badly degraded. There are a large number of local, national and international initiatives to conserve at least some of the forests that remain. In 1991 Uganda created the Rwenzori Mountains, Mgahinga Gorilla, and Bwindi-Impenetrable National Parks, thus protecting all three of its Albertine Rift montane forests. This paper presents a synopsis of the conservation values of these three parks, and describes the conservation problems and the efforts to help ensure their proper development and long-term viability. Considerable progress towards the conservation of all three areas has already been made and future prospects are good, particularly for the mountain gorilla Gorilla gorilla beringei.

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Research Article
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Oryx , Volume 27 , Issue 4 , October 1993 , pp. 214 - 224
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Copyright © Fauna and Flora International 1993

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