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

the illegal mahogany trade and the fact that members of the Forest Department had been involved in it; the matter was featured i ...

of the Budongo Forest Reserve. This land is being chipped away every day as new immigrants arrive and search for a place to grow ...

The most recent data we have on encroachment in Uganda’s forests comes from a national chimpanzee survey (Plumptre et al. 2003) ...

The fourth Management Plan (Kamugisha and Nsita 1997) is current at the present time, covering the period July 1997–June 2007. I ...

relation to eco-tourism.^92 Biodiversity conservation in Budongo is further explored in the excellent report by Howard et al. (1 ...

Table 12.2: Ugandan chimpanzees: status and distribution (from Edroma et al .^1997 ). Site Status Area (km 2 ) Altitude Habitat ...

230 The future of Budongo’s chimpanzees Table 12.3: Ugandan chimpanzees: threats and conservation priorities (from Edroma et al. ...

Conservation education As we have seen, one of the recommendations of the PHVA was for improved conser- vation education. This i ...

Sundays respectively.^93 Issues that have been discussed at village meetings (often at the request of villagers) have included m ...

Workshop in March 2001 when we held a one-day course on bee-keeping and distributed hives to 18 local farmers. In general, despi ...

Hunting and pitsawing We have discussed threats to Budongo’s chimpanzees above, and also in Chapter 10 and Chapter 11. Here we l ...

The BFP’s live-trap project is one, partial solution to the problem of chimpanzees being caught in leg-hold traps and snares nea ...

some years KSW has been killing baboons to try to control the problem, it is new for any appreciable number of chimpanzees to be ...

assist in reducing the costs incurred in loss of sugar to animals and payments to patrol guards. A meeting was held at KSW on 20 ...

These two fields would not be used for growing sugar cane in future. They also agreed that all new contracts for outgrowers will ...

Who is responsible for chimpanzee protection? One of the things that will have occurred to the reader by now is the question: To ...

NGOs and small projects can indeed be very good, as for example in the case of the work done by BFP thanks to funding by NGS or ...

worked out and deeply insightful document and if its ideas and objectives can be achieved, even in part, it will have played a l ...

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Appendices A The Sonso chimpanzee community The members of the Sonso chimpanzee community, from 1990 to 2004, are as given in Ta ...