Kibale Forest Reserve (Uganda)
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- Work cat.: Property rights, community participation, and natural resource management, c2002:t.p. (Kibale Forest Park) p. 1 (Kibale Forest National Park (KNP)) p. 2 (Govt. of Uganda gazetted Kibale Forest Reserve and Kibale Game Corridor as Kibale National Park (KNP) in Nov. 1993)
- Kibale National Park management plan, 1997-2001, 1996, via WWW, Aug. 11, 2004("The area now known as Kibale National Park (KNP), situated in western Uganda, has fallen under various protected area categories for over sixty years. Kibale Forest was originally managed by the British, and later by Ugandan authorities, as a forest reserve from 1932 to 1993.")
Wikipedia description:
Kibale National Park is a national park in western Uganda, protecting moist evergreen rainforest. It is 766 km2 (296 sq mi) in size and ranges between 1,100 m (3,600 ft) and 1,600 m (5,200 ft) in elevation. Despite encompassing primarily moist evergreen forest, it contains a diverse array of landscapes. Kibale is one of the last remaining expanses to contain both lowland and montane forests. In eastern Africa, it sustains the last significant expanse of pre-montane forest. The park was gazetted in 1932 and formally established in 1993 to protect a large area of forest previously managed as a logged forest reserve. The park forms a continuous forest with Queen Elizabeth National Park. This adjoining of the parks creates a 180 km (110 mi) wildlife corridor. It is an important ecotourism and safari destination, well-known for its population of habituated common chimpanzees and twelve other species of primates. It is also the location of the Makerere University Biological Field Station.
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