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3 - The use of research: how science in Uganda's National Parks has been applied

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 July 2010

By
William Olupot  and
Andrew J. Plumptre
Edited by
Richard Wrangham  and
Elizabeth Ross
Richard Wrangham
Affiliation:
Harvard University, Massachusetts
Elizabeth Ross
Affiliation:
Kasiisi School Project, Uganda
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INTRODUCTION

Uganda has a long history of ecological research. Some of the world's oldest permanent sample plots occur in its forests, dating back to 1933 (Eggeling,1947; Sheil, 1996). Management of forests for timber was always aimed at making logging sustainable, and in this respect Uganda was well ahead of its time. Initially, research in forests was designed to improve forest management, leading to changes in management practices that even influenced tropical forest management in other countries around the world (Dawkins and Philip, 1998). Similarly, research on savanna ecology and wildlife dates back to the 1950s in Uganda, although tracking of wildlife populations and culling of elephants (Loxodonta africana) began as early as the 1920s. The establishment of the Nuffield Unit of Tropical Animal Ecology (NUTAE) in Queen Elizabeth National Park in 1961, which later became the Uganda Institute of Ecology (UIE), was well ahead of most research stations in other savanna parks in Africa. Some of the first studies of large mammal ecology in African savannas and the impacts of grazing/browsing and fire were made in Uganda's parks and led to management recommendations for culling in the late 1960s.

Most of the research in Uganda's Protected Areas has been associated with research stations. Uganda currently has three research stations in forested ecosystems: Makerere University Biological Field Station (Kibale National Park), Budongo Forest Project (Budongo Forest Reserve), and the Institute of Tropical Forest Conservation (Bwindi Impenetrable National Park).

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Science and Conservation in African Forests
The Benefits of Longterm Research
 , pp. 15 - 26
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2008

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