Kibale National Park, located in western Uganda, is renowned for its diversity of monkeys and great apes, of which the best known is the chimpanzee. Deforestation in the past 20 years has led to this habitat being severely endangered, but the reforestation of a total of 10,000 ha will restore this area. The Ugandan government invited Face the Future to carry out restoration work firstly to demonstrate its commitment to sound conservation in this primate rich forest and to enable the surrounding communities get employment plus other forestry related benefits and appreciate the value of this protected area.

In Kibale Face the Future and Uganda Wildlife Authority experimented with new techniques to speed up the transformation of the ubiquitous elephant grass stands into forest in a cost-effective way. To date over 3,500 hectares have been rehabilitated.

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Further reading

A recent study performed by Jasper Klomp of Wageningen University shows the effect of browsing African forest elephants on the carbon stocks in restored forest in Kibale National Park. The thesis can be downloaded here.