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More surprises-from the African elephant to the Scaly ant-eaters
What makes my work with camera traps thrilling is the big number of images (and surprises that come with them) we get from our camera trapping activity. Last year we captured twenty and four species...
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A Date with Rare Guests – a Big Cat, Cobra, Chameleons, Baboons
Recently a number of visitors have unexpectedly been showing up at ITFC offices. Could this be due to the rainy season? Just the other day I had a date with a chameleon right in MY OFFICE! How it had...
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Season’s Greetings from the Institute of Tropical Forest Conservation
Season’s greetings and many thanks to all our followers and supporters in 2011. We look forward to interacting with you again in 2012. Best wishes Douglas and on behalf of the ITFC Team
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Bwindi’s Flying Jewels
Bwindi Impenetrable National Park is believed to hold the richest fauna community in East Africa, due in part to its provision of an extensive lowland-montane forest continuum (Afromontane forest is...
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Night of the ants
They came in the night. I woke with my hair full of crawling creatures. Ants. After that we didn’t get much sleep. Army ants are swarming arount the ITFC station. Not a good idea to get too close. We...
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98.25% – the gorilla in our genes and the human in theirs
The site has been having a few problems the last few weeks. When I last put this up a few weeks ago it got lost. Let’s try again (again) and hope …. Have you heard that the gorilla genome has just been...
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Why Stripe Breasted Tits get their toenails painted
I did not know about this until I saw it. Young birds get their toenails painted by researchers. Strange indeed but there is a reason. The other day coming back from visiting the mountain gorillas we...
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Publish or perish
Science is incomplete if the findings are not communicated. Collecting biological data from the forest is one part, and communicating the science is the other. My career as a scientist can be made or...
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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 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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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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