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Deciding the future of Uganda's tropical forests

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 July 2009

Gary M. Tabor ,
Andrew D. Johns  and
John M. Kasenene
Gary M. Tabor
Affiliation:
African Wildlife Foundation, P.O. Box 48177, Nairobi, Kenya.
Andrew D. Johns
Affiliation:
Makerere University Biological Field Station, P.O. Box 10066, Kampala, Uganda.
John M. Kasenene
Affiliation:
Makerere University Biological Field Station, P.O. Box 10066, Kampala, Uganda.
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Abstract

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The FFPS has been involved for some time in conservation activities in the diminishing montane forests of east-central Africa. These montane forests form an upper sector of an even more endangered medium-altitude forest formation. Throughout their distribution, medium-altitude forests have been extensively disturbed by ever-increasing human activities. Extensive areas remain only in eastern Zaire, where there ststus is uncertain, and in Uganda. The Ugandan forests are now the focus of a major internationally financed development programme.

Type
Research Article
Information
Oryx , Volume 24 , Issue 4 , October 1990 , pp. 208 - 214
Copyright
Copyright © Fauna and Flora International 1990

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