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The impenetrable challenge of an overwhelming understorey
The following is a text I wrote for tthe British Ecological Society Bulletin — that was published last month (June 2012). I wrote it to attract interest to a challenge that requires more attention from...
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My wonderful experience with Batwa and their cultural sites in Bwindi
I have spent the last six months reading about the Batwa, camping near their homes, interviewing them, sharing meals and cracking jokes. Yes, you are reading right. Cracking jokes with Batwa. I have...
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ITFC has come of age this year!
ITFC is twenty-one years old this year. That is the same age as the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. In recognition of this we contacted ITFC’s Alumni and asked them to write a few words to remember...
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Lucy and Andrew’s first blog
Here it goes, our first blog of many at ITFC! Firstly we will introduce ourselves, Andrew Kirkby and Lucy Sangster, both recent graduates from the University of Sussex, majoring in Ecology and...
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The search for Bwindi’s River Otters
As we set off, through the tea plantations, past the abrupt transition to tropical forest (as is often the case around Bwindi), the heavens opened up on us with the force of a true tropical storm. We...
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TEAM back from the field
Last week Badru Mugerwa, the Bwindi-TEAM site manager at ITFC, and a group of research assistants, came back from a stint of data collection for TEAM (Tropical Ecology Assessment and Monitoring...
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Phenology week at ITFC
This week we joined Frederick Ssali (ITFC’s research officer) and other ITFC research assistants conducting their long-term phenology monitoring project. This programme was borne from a long-term...
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Bwindi’s wild bananas
It’s one of those times of year at ITFC when everyone is busy analyzing and writing up their completed research and we chose this opportunity to talk to Frederick Ssasli about his interesting study...
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The Forth ITFC/UWA Annual Information Sharing Workshop-A Huge success
Warm greetings from the Institute of Tropical Forest Conservation (ITFC). I take this opportunity to apologize for quite a long silence. Allow me to break this silence with a recent success story from...
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My Bwindi experiance
Today marks my 16th day in Ruhija, Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (famously known as ‘Bwindi’). This is the land of the mountain gorillas that am yet to see and cross off my bucket list of 100...
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