Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
Bwindi Impenetrable National Park lies in the south-western part of Uganda and is about 530km from Kampala the capital city. The park is situated close to the borders of Rwanda and Democratic Republic Congo. One of the world’s most threatened primates have started multiplying in number in some parts of their location. Bwindi is one of the areas that the gorillas have increased in number, adding from 300 to close to 350 individuals of the gorillas. This was according to the recent census carried out in the Bwindi impenetrable forest with the help of the authority and the locals.
A 12%increase of growth in numbers is a clear indication that the wildlife conservation programs being implemented in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park which is by far the chief destination of bird watchers and gorilla trekkers are fruitful. This increase in number provides a fruitful foundation that the world’s mountain gorillas that are now about 700 individual, will record a reasonable increase time to come.
In the period of the 1970s and 1980s characterized by a lot of civil wars in the East African Region, these amazing apes and other primates were hunted down for game meat which factor contributed to the gorillas being almost extinct in their natural habitats in Uganda, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo Though a promising increase in number to about 720 is promising of which, Uganda has over half of the now remaining rare gorillas.
A census carried out in the dense Bwindi Impenetrable Forest in 2006 established a remarkable increase in the gorilla groups to 30 from the 28 that existed in 1997 of which the number of gorillas in each group varied from 3 to 28 individuals, though a diversity of conservation groups identified a total of about 11 solitary males who have not yet found families
Five of the 30 gorilla groups are habituated of which only 4 are up for tourism purposes. The 5 habituated groups have an outstanding total of about 76 individuals of the mountain gorillas that consists of about 23% of the total gorilla population in the entire park. Based on a remarkable increase in the gorilla population and health in Bwindi Impenetrable National park, 2 gorilla families/groups have been habituated in Rushaga and Ruhija so as to boost tourism revenue and the increase demand for gorilla tourism from the general public.
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