What You Need To Know About Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park In Uganda

Bwindi Impenetrable Forest is a tropical rain forest and a home of half of the world’s endangered mountain gorillas. It is a national park gazette under the government of Uganda. It is strategically located in the South Western part of the country. It lies on the borders of the democratic Republic of Congo and the Republic of Rwanda. It means that it is has the same features with the virunga national park. The park is composed of approximately 331 square kilometers of the forest.  In its composition, there is Montane and lowland forest. These forests cannot be accessed by a car. You will only access these forests when you are on foot. It is one the sites under UNESCO heritage site that means that it is internationally recognized as a heritage site.

As early as 1964, it was prior designated as an animal sanctuary. In this regard, it was meant to provide extra protection to the endangered mountain gorillas which had been found to be existing in the park. Later after, it was renamed Impenetrable Central Forest reserve after gorilla it was established that gorillas inhabited in that forest.  Currently, the park is located on 331 square kilometers away from the main road. It is composed of composed of two blocks of the forest that are connected by a small corridor of the forest

Of present, the park is a home of about 120 species including the endangered mountain gorillas. Approximately 348 bird species have been recorded in the park with 100 flowering plants which acts as a habitant of some of these bird species and mammals. To herbalists and researchers, the park is a home of 163 species of trees which include medicinal plants and 104 species of ferns. This clearly shows that Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National park in very rich in biodiversity. Squaring down to primates, half of the world’s mountain gorillas are found in this national park. As you track the gorillas, you will come across other primates like the colobus monkeys and chimpanzees within the same forest. The gorillas found in the park fall under habituated gorilla groups and those which are in families, roaming normally in the wilderness. The most notable group you cannot afford to miss viewing and those which will be included on your permit include; Mubare, Habinyanja, Rushegura and the Nkuringo group. These are a few of the other groups of habituated gorillas. There are 8 groups which are found in the same forest.

In conclusion therefore, because its ecological importance, the park has been considered as to be rich with a number of tree species and animals including birds, butterflies and reptiles being found in the impenetrable forest. It is the park you will go to participate in gorilla trekking and you finally see them in the wilderness at take some photos of them as you will be allowed to spend some time with them. Apart from the endangered mountain gorillas, you will also view chimps, L’Hoest monkeys, African elephants, African green broad bill, cream banded swallowtail, black and white colobus, red tailed monkeys, vervets and the giant forest hog. This will give you a rich wildlife viewing within this forest. This very hard to find a travel company in Uganda selling a safari without including Bwindi Impenetrable Forest on the travel itinerary. Some tourism travel by air to Rwanda and come to track the gorillas of Bwindi Impenetrable Forest. It is much wiser in this way because the journey from Entebbe to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park is long as compared to when you are transferred from Kigali to Bwindi.