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

Crop-raiding From time to time I have mentioned the topic of crop-raiding. It is the reason farmers set leg-hold traps and the r ...

Forty-nine different crops were cultivated, including grain and root staples, beans, vegetables, fruits, condiments and various ...

with dogs, scented soap laid around the perimeter of the field, goat dung spread around the field, clearing undergrowth around t ...

needs to be focused on practical ways to help the farmers while considering the alternatives open to the baboons themselves if t ...

Surveys of attitudes to chimpanzees must, therefore, be made inside chimpanzee habitat. Two studies have been made specifically ...

This last point is important. These people, living in close proximity to the forest, are aware of the benefits in terms of emplo ...

began its outgrowers scheme under which farmers are paid by KSW for the sugar they grow on their own fields. As suspected by Kiw ...

In this chapter we have looked at the human pressures on chimpanzees and seen how human perceptions of them differ in some respe ...

11. The Kasokwa Forest chimpanzees: a breakdown of trust I guess this has to be the moment when I’m most at peace with the world ...

The Kasokwa Forest chimpanzees 213 Because the boundary markers of the Kasokwa Forest Reserve could no longer be determined, bec ...

214 The Kasokwa Forest chimpanzees find out what threats they faced from the local population and to what extent they engaged in ...

Chimpanzee–human conflict 215 in observing them when he started his project, and they have remained elusive and hard to habituat ...

216 The Kasokwa Forest chimpanzees trap placed near a mango tree in a local garden; he dragged and carried the trap, which had s ...

Further cases of trapping 217 Kasongoire Forest to the southwest of Kasokwa Forest in April 2002. The case had been brought to t ...

218 The Kasokwa Forest chimpanzees hand or foot of the victim and so allow it to escape. In fact the chimpanzee was able to extr ...

Can a solution be found? 219 ● At the moment we are planning to ban the use of man-traps through an amnesty. If the above issues ...

220 The Kasokwa Forest chimpanzees ● How people can be educated in chimpanzee conservation given the attacks by chimpanzees on h ...

The role of research 221 complaining about this incident, and it is to be hoped that some action has been taken to prevent a rec ...

222 The Kasokwa Forest chimpanzees past and at present, attitudes to the forest, chimpanzees and attitudes to them, and trapping ...

12. The future of Budongo’s chimpanzees and of the chimpanzees of Uganda as a whole The party for Independence Day was a great s ...