Creating Corridors for Chimpanzee Conservation

Abstract

Habitat fragmentation has long been recognised as the most serious threat to chimpanzee conservation in Uganda. Land use change, and especially deforestation, is increasingly breaking up migration and foraging routes, and bringing chimpanzees into greater conflict with people. The ‘forest corridor’ concept is a well-recognised approach for mitigating this, within both Uganda’s chimpanzee conservation policy and the 2010–2020 Strategic Plan for the Albertine Rift. Section 1 of this report reviews the thinking and theory behind conservation corridors, while Section 2 summarises Uganda’s supportive policy landscape for chimpanzee conservation but also the challenges facing people and chimpanzee conservation in the region.