Conservation through community use of plant resources : establishing collaborative management at Bwindi Impenetrable and Mgahinga Gorilla National Parks, Uganda

This paper reports on a pilot process used by Uganda National Parks (UNP) in collaboration with CARE's Development Through Conservation Project (DTC) to establish collaborative forest management with communuities surrounding Bwindi Impenetrable Forest and Mgahinga National Park in south west Uganda.
The report begins by outlining the history of resource use and conservation in the two national parks concerned and then goes on to outline step by step the process used, which involved participatory work with various types of community organisations. Finally, the potential of collaborative resource management in Uganda is examined.