Uganda
Wildlife Protected Areas Project
Country: Uganda
Project location within country: Selected National Parks, Uganda
Collaboration name: Frontier-Uganda
Name of client: Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA)
Financed by: Society for Environmental Exploration (SEE)
Start date: July 1993
Completion date: April 1998
Aim
To carry out baseline biodiversity research in selected Game Reserves in order to provide information on both the biological value and socio-economic situation in protected areas.
Objectives
- To carry out work out under a Memorandum of co-operation with the Uganda Wildlife Authority
- To involve standardised baseline surveys of selected groups of flora and fauna using systematic survey techniques
- To undertake socio-economic surveys of communities surrounding the protected areas to determine their attitudes towards and impacts on the natural resources
- To devise simple monitoring schemes to evaluate the effects of management and to train UWA field staff to undertake them
Outputs
- Improved UWA capacity to collect baseline biological and socio-economic data and conduct future long-term monitoring in the protected areas
- Three Ugandan game biologists worked with Frontier-Uganda in the field and over 60 Game Guards assisted with all aspects of the research programme
- Eight protected areas have been surveyed by Frontier-Uganda
- The results of the surveys published as a series of site reports to assist the Ministry of Tourism, Wildlife and
- Antiquities and the Uganda Wildlife Authority in the planning and management of conservation
- Data published as both scientific and popular articles to raise awareness of Uganda’s biodiversity and conservation importance and contribute to existing information at the national and international level.
- Built a Kanyanchu primate camp and visitor centre in Kibale Forest
Ssesse Islands Biodiversity Project
Country: Uganda
Project location within country: Ssesse Islands, Lake Victoria, Uganda
Collaboration name: Frontier-Uganda
Name of client: Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA)
Financed by: Society for Environmental Exploration (SEE)
Start date: Oct 1997
Completion date: March 1998
Aim
To carry out baseline biodiversity research in selected areas of Uganda in order to provide information on both the biological value and socio-economic situation in these selected areas.
Objectives
- To carry out work under a Memorandum of Co-operation with the Uganda Wildlife Authority
- To involve involved standardised baseline surveys, of selected groups of flora and fauna using systematic survey techniques, in the Ssesse Islands Biodiversity Project work programme
- To undertake a survey of community fishery activity, using standardised fisheries survey techniques to assess species diversity and richness and to investigate levels of fisheries resource use with reference to species and habitat type by the local communities
- To provide training in biological survey techniques, ecological research and monitoring and public awareness raising
Outputs
- Seven of the Ssesse Islands included in the survey programme
- Results produced as a series of site reports to assist the Uganda Wildlife Authority, the Wildlife Clubs of Uganda and the District Natural Resource Management Authorities with the planning and management of conservation
- Training in baseline biological survey techniques, resource use and ecological research and monitoring
- Ecological research and monitoring
- Surveys of fish species diversity and richness and fisheries resource use
- Public awareness raising
- Production of technical reports and scientific papers