We have been here now for a year, I cannot believe how quickly time is passing!! Here are some photos of our field trip to Budongo Forest to one of UCUs projects.
A trading centre where we stopped to buy provisions to take to the research camp.
The butchers where we bought meat!
The banda at the camp - in the forest and below the 'facilities' a bit of a trek in the night!!!
Budongo Forest is in the north west of the country not far from Lake Albert. They are researching how to stop the animals eating the village crops and so stop the villagers killing the Chimpanzees and other monkey species (black and white colobus, Vervet, Blue and Red-tailed) all of which we saw at close quarters.
The research camp is in an old, abandoned logging station. At least they have stopped felling trees there. Much of the forest has already been destroyed. We stayed for the weekend and I was able to track chimps with the researchers while Rob visited the test sites for growing crops the animals do not like. They plant tea and chillies, which they do not like, around the maize and banana crops to dissuade the animals from eating them.
Tracking the chimps was amazing.
The only problem was that I was so
excited being so close my photos were pretty terrible! The female kept looking back...to check we were still keeping up??!!
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