Implementing Agency:
Department For International Development (NRRD)

Managing Institute:
NRIL (Natural Resources International)

Contractor:
Institute of Biological Anthropology (University of Oxford)

Project Code: R4738 583-656-003	Start Date: June 1, 1991	End Date: May 31, 1994
Commitment: £146 261	Status: Completed	Type of Funding: Bilateral - TDR

Project Background:
Prior studies by Dr Reynolds of the Budongo Forestand by Dr Plumptre of primate ecology laid the groundwork for the present project.

Project Objectives:
1.)To extract data on past selective felling from Budongo Forest working plans. 2.)To compare aerial photographs of past and present situations for evidence of forest growth or decline. 3.)To compare nature reserves with logged forest in terms of tree species diversity and distribution, particularly wildlife food species and timber species. 4.)To survey areas logged/refined at known times in the past for regeneration of tree species used as food sources by wildlife, especially primates. 5.)To survey and estimate primate populations using transect methodologies. 6.)To study the current feeding strategies and the foods eaten by fruit-eating primates and to compare them with previous studies. 7.)To study seed dispersal by fruit-eating primates by the analysis of faecal samples. 8.)To collect fruit, seed, leaf and flower samples of food species for subsequent identification and phytochemical analysis. 9.)To study the adequacy or otherwise of existing nature reserves for fruit-eating primates.