xii Acknowledgements
I want to thank Rhiannon Meredith, Susie Whiten, Robin May, Wilma van Riel, Juliet
Craig, Richard Gregory, Rory Lynch, Michelle Higgins, Grant Joseph, Samantha
Ralston, Nicky Jenner and Ilona Johnston for their voluntary work which has contributed
to the Project in many ways: they have renovated the herbarium, created the laboratory,
museum and library at Sonso, helped with our extension projects in surrounding
villages, entered data on computers and applied paint to walls that badly needed it.
David Bowes-Lyon first mapped our trail system; he used a compass, tape measure,
paper and pencil and his map has been useful to all of us down the years. Glenn Bush
later mapped the new western trails, and Emily Bethell mapped the new eastern and
southeastern sections. The original maps in this book were made by Leela Hazzah and
Mary Reuling, International Cartography and Wildlife Conservation (ICWC). To all
I am deeply grateful.
Gladys Kalema came from Kampala while she was the Uganda Wildlife Authority
vet and taught our staff the importance of strict hygiene, also what to do in the event of
finding a sick or injured or dead chimpanzee. Thanks to Gladys for making us conscious
at an early stage of the importance of doing all we could to avoid disease transmission
to our chimpanzees.
Fred Babweteera, Janette Wallis and Chris Fairgrieve were tremendously helpful in
writing the Reports of our conferences and the workshop held at Nyabyeya Forestry
College. Zoe Wales deserves a special mention for the superb job she did in writing the
documentWhat We Know About Budongo Forest.
Without the work of the many students and senior researchers who have worked at
Budongo this book could not have been written. Their names are mostly included in
Appendix F. Their contributions will be abundantly evident to all who read the book. I
wish to thank most sincerely all those who have given permission to use the results of
their studies or to use their figures. They are individually acknowledged in the section
‘Permissions’.
For statistical help in writing papers and in the preparation of this book I should like
to thank Francis Marriott.
Thanks to all who have commented on chapters or sections of text: Bob Plumptre,
Tim Synnott, Nick Newton-Fisher, Janette Wallis, Richard Wrangham, Toshisada
Nishida, Melissa Emery Thompson, Andy Plumptre, Linda Vigilant, Fred Babweteera,
Duane Quiatt, Tweheyo Mnason, Jo Thompson, Phyllis Lee, Alan Dixson, Lucy Bates,
Sean and Catherine O’Hara, Katie Fawcett, Kate Hill, Julie Munn, Hugh Notman, Lori
Oliver, Emma Stokes, Dick Byrne, Emily Bethell, Kate Arnold, Andy Whiten, Ella
Chase, Jenny Greenham, Zephyr Kiwede, Geresomu Muhumuza, Katie Slocombe and
Klaus Zuberbühler.
The Boise Fund and the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) via Richard Wrangham provided
start-up funds for the BFP, enabling us to get off the ground, and for that I am forever
grateful. For help with core funding for the Project and its staff, without which we could
not have survived down the years, I am very indebted to the Overseas Development
Administration (now the Department for International Development) through its Forest
Research Programme for funding from 1991 to 1997 and to the Norwegian Agency for