Plants, Trees & Forest Ecology

Most visitors to Bwindi look up—at the gorillas, the colobus, the hornbills moving through the…

In the higher elevations of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park—above 2,000 metres, where the air is…

In the forest of Bwindi there are trees that begin their lives as murderers. The…

Long before the first botanist arrived with a notebook, the forests of southwestern Uganda were…

In Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, no single tree family does more ecological work than the…

When you trek through Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, one of the landscape transitions you may…

Walk deep enough into any Ugandan forest and you enter a living pharmacy. Long before…

The edges of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park are a mosaic of national park boundary, community…

At the upper elevations of Bwindi Impenetrable Forest and throughout the high forest of the…

At a specific band of altitude in the Virunga volcanic mountains — between approximately 2,200…

Look up in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest and the branches above you are not bare. Every…

Long before the first tourists arrived at Bwindi to see mountain gorillas, long before the…

Not all trees are equal in a forest ecosystem. Some species are so central to…