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Tracking Mountain gorillas with Jonathan Kingdon and Laura Snook
We joined our friends Jonathan Kingdon and Laura Snook – see previous blog for background – for gorilla tracking to the Bitukura group just recently. It was only the four of us and Stephen from UWA as...
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ITFC celebrates its 21st Birthday!
Dear friends of ITFC, On Friday May 4th, ITFC gave a birthday party: in 2012 it is 21 years ago that the institute came into being … It was in 1991 when a project for conservation of the ‘Impenetrable...
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Experiencing the Batwa trail in Mgahinga National Park
I am just back from a week in Kisoro, a town on the foot of the volcanoes that straddle the border between Uganda and Rwanda. This trip -with colleagues Medard Twinamatsiko and Fredrick Ssali- was a...
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Special visitors to ITFC: cyclists from Johannesburg!
Last weekend, two young South African guys arrived in Ruhija … on bicycles! Alex and Murray have cycled some 6000km now on a tour from Johannesburg to Nairobi that started in early February, an amazing...
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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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Bwindi Mountain gorillas at 400
The results for the fourth Bwindi Mountain gorilla census were announced yesterday by the Uganda Ministry of Tourism, Wildlife, and Antiquities and the Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA). It is now...
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ITFC end of year party
ITFC’s 2012 end of year party finally arrived! A little overdue, due to the hard work taking place, but still full of celebration and fun. The party was not just about celebrating the end of 2012 and...
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Conservation Throught Poverty Alleviation Interim Workshop
This week we are updating you on the Darwin Initiative and DFID (Department for International Development, UK) – funded Conservation Through Poverty Alleviation (CTPA) project. Last Tuesday (12th...
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Badru’s story nominated for a Film Festival Award!
I have been off for a while. I congratulate Andrew and Lucy for a job well done. They kept you updated with the on-going ITFC research and other activities through a continued flow of blogs. Here is an...
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ITFC hosts the Annual Ranger Based Monitoring workshop
From 11 to 13 September 2013, ITFC hosted an annual Ranger Based Monitoring (RBM) workshop in Ruhija. The workshop was organized and funded by the International Gorilla Conservation Programme (IGCP)....
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Responding to Human Wildlife Conflict: The Planning progression of Nkuringo...
The raison d’être why Gorillas are spilling over to community land are not yet known despite the rich diversity of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (Bwindi). In rejoinder to human wildlife conflict...
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ITFC hosts a successful an eight-day international summer field school
Three months of intense preparations by ITFC pulled- off a fantastic first-ever-international summer school to be hosted on its campus. The Volkswagen Foundation financed summer school attracted over...
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HIGH POWERED DELEGATION FROM MINISTRY OF TOURISM VISITS ITFC
This is not an April fool’s day joke! The day was on the 3rd April 2014, a day that will always remain memorable for the Institute of Tropical Forest Conservation (ITFC). ITFC was honoured to host a...
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THE VICE-CHANCELLOR’S VISIT
On May 24th 2014, the Institute of Tropical Forest Conservation (ITFC) was crowned with a visit from the vice chancellor (VC) of Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST), Professor Frederick...
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Twenty five years of research collaboration between UWA, partners and MUST,...
…the theme it was for this year’s ITFC/UWA information sharing workshop. The days were 17th and 18th July 2014 when all roads led to Ruhija, for a remarkably successful annual research dissemination...
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ITFC honors Professor F. I.B Kayanja for his dedication to the conservation...
On the 17th and 18th July, ITFC and UWA held an annual research information sharing workshop in Ruhija, Bwindi whose theme was “25 years of research collaboration between Uganda Wildlife Authority...
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Memories to Remember: ITFC honored by the new Vice Chancellor’s visit!
On 16th/11/2014, only fourteen days as the Vice Chancellor of Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST), Professor Celestino Obua honored the Institute of Tropical Forest Conservation (ITFC)...
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Friends of Bwindi researchers , we are delighted and excited to share with you some of the milestones from our rather long silence. We have been updating our (ITFC) website. We are going live today...
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ITFC, UWA and partners host a successful 6th Information sharing workshop
Six years down the road, the culture of information sharing by ITFC, UWA and Partners continues to thrive and positively influence management and conservation actions around Bwindi Mgahinga...
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