Chimpanzees of the Budongo Forest : Ecology, Behaviour, and Conservation

184 The problem of snares Table 9.2: Number of days patrolled and rate of snares removed per day in compartments of Budongo Fore ...

Snare removal project 185 compartment N3, in which the BFP is located, declined until December, 2002. This provides good evidenc ...

186 The problem of snares under consideration. More intensive co-operation between UWA and NFA is also now being discussed.^74 T ...

Live-trap project 187 properly. He then introduced the ‘Christopher’ live-trap, his own design, and explained to us the type of ...

from the injuries caused by the leg-hold traps. It seemed immoral not to try. Chris did not have a budget for this. We agreed th ...

Snare injuries at other sites 189 Uganda and perhaps other parts of Africa will adopt the live-trap approach to chimpanzee conse ...

190 The problem of snares In order to enquire what the current situation was at other sites, two colleagues and I sent out a que ...

10. The human foreground Into forest at 7.45 with Kennedy who is going to show me where the illegal pit-sawing is taking place i ...

Modern healthcare facilities are of a poor standard and dispensaries stock little other than painkillers and drugs for malaria ( ...

A total of 60% were currently married, with an additional 14% divorced or widowed, 20% co-habiting and 6% single. Mean age at fi ...

‘No alternative strategy than to maximize reproduction’ is a strong phrase with which to conclude the paper. Yet events since Ma ...

Johnson studied the use of plant products obtained from the forest. In particular she drew attention to the income-generating us ...

for the treatment of body pains and spirit possession. The bark of the forest tree Canarium schweinfurthiiwas used for the treat ...

setting of snares were low education level, large family size and ethnic origin (with Congolese immigrants particularly involved ...

thought they were not destructive; 33.5% stated they were valuable as a tourist attraction; and 8.2% of respondents thought they ...

foreigners who left the country, because most health professionals had in fact been foreigners. The civil wars of 1971–1986 disr ...

concerns and problems of the people to whom we must address ourselves if we want the forest to survive. We have to know why they ...

while activities such as cultivating are no longer perceived as ‘work’. High status goes with of having a ‘job’ and earning mone ...

Why stay? There is a puzzle that is explored by Lauridsen in her study. That is the question: Why remain? A large number of her ...

Beyond cash It is not only cash that motivates local people. They are not, actually, money-minded. Like people everywhere, they ...