Nature Conservation in Uganda's Tropical Forest Reserves
1991
Howard, Peter C. | Butler, James | Howard, Peter
This report arises from a three-year survey of the status of Uganda's twelve principal tropical high forest reserves, carried out between 1985 and 1988 for the Uganda Forest Department (FD), with financial support from the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWWF-International), and the New York Zoological Society (NYZS). It presents the results of this survey, and attempts to: describe the present status of the principal forest reserves in terms of the type and extent of recent human disturbance;review their importance as a renewable natural resource, and the ways in which present management practices may affect their long-term ability to provide mankind with a range of useful goods and services: describe the wildlife communities that are characteristic of these forest reserves; and show how they are important to national and international species conservation efforts;review the need to set aside areas of relatively undisturbed natural forest as strict nature reserves, and provide guidelines for the selection of appropriate areas; and provide specific recommendations on forest management aimed at ensuring sustainable methods of exploitation. The project began as a one-year survey of six forests in Western Uganda, but was extended at the request of the Minister of Environment Protection to include major forests elsewhere, so that ultimately all of Uganda's closed canopy forests exceeding 100 km squared were included (11 forests), together with one smaller forest (Itwara) which had been included in the orginal project proposal.
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