
Promoting Batwa Community Development and Park Co-Management in Bwindi National Park, Uganda
Grantee Name: Mbarara University of Science and Technology
- Hotspot
- Eastern Afromontane
- Location
- Uganda
- Amount
- $110,708
- Dates
- Jun 2018 – Oct 2019
- Keywords
- Access and Benefit Sharing, Buffer zones, Capacity building, Community-based conservation, Education, Hunting, Indigenous People, Protected Areas, Employment, Poverty
Work with Batwa communities along the southern border of Bwindi National Park, famous as a home to mountain gorillas. Build Batwa capacity to enable them to participate in park management committees, helping them negotiate for resource use rights, and improving the Batwa Forest Experience, an eco-tourism experience just inside the park's boundary.
2 Improve the protection and management of the KBA network throughout the hotspot.
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