Bwindi impenetrable national park is dated around 25000 years ego, and it is was of the tropical rain forest that is said not to have been disorganized during the ice age. This park was gazette in 1991 as a national park and in 1994 was declared a world heritage site in 1994 by UNESCO due to its reach in biodiversity. The park measures around 331kmsq, and covers or is shared by the districts of Kanungu, Kisoro, Rubanda. The park has around 120 species of mammals, 200 species of trees, 88 species of moths, 51 reptile species,310 species of birds, and 348 species of birds.
A number of animals inhabits the forest but most especially half of the world’s total population of gorillas are found in this park. It also habours other animals like the African forest elephants, chimpanzees, buffaloes, baboons, vervet monkeys, black and white colobus monkeys, red tailed monkeys, red colobus monkeys, blue monkeys, l’hoest monkeys, yellow backed duikers, aswell as birds like the Cassin’s grey fly catcher, black bee eater, black billed turaco, African green bull, African broad bill birds, brown nacked parrot, regal sunbird, grauer’s broadbill, kivu ground thrush, mountain oriole, handsome spurfowl, Cinnamon-chested bee eater, bar tailed trogon, Doherty’s bushshrike, dusky crimsonwing, mountain maskes apalis,strange weaver,black faced rufous warbler, yellow eyed black flycatcher, strange weaver, Rwenzori turaco, Rwenzori batis shelley’s crimsonwing, red throated alethe, crowned hornbill,yellow-streaked greenbul, grauser’s swamp warbler. and many more.
This national park was originally inhabited by the pygmy/batwa people that leaved within the forest who where brought down by the government in 1991 only because they used to compete with the gorilla in search of food like plants, fruites, shoots, honey thus fighting with them. Also, they used to hunt other animals like the duikers and bush backs as food, with also the local people poaching these animals resulted in a government gazettement to protect its biodiversity for the next generation.
This national park is found in the south western Uganda, neighboring democratic republic of congo at the edge of the great Albertine rift valley that obtained its name from the locals due to its thickness in the bomboo interspersed in the large foresr hard wood, covered with ferns, vines that makes it thick dark thus the loclas naming the place of darkness or MUBWINDI.
THREE DAYS GORILLA TRACKING IN BWINDI NATIONAL PARK
