PEOPLE AND PLANTS WORKING PAPER
DECEMBER 1996
People, park and plant use
Recommendations for multiple-use zones and development alternative around Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda
by A.B.Cunningham

CONTENTS

Abstract

Introduction

Bwindi Impenetrable Forest: conservation importance and vegetation change

• Conservation importance
• Climate change
• People and vegetation change

Creating guidelines for multiple-use zones

• Which are priority species ?
• Local knowledge of resource users
• Life form, plant parts used and the effects of harvesting
• Sustainable in practice?

Results and recommendations

• Minor forest products and specialist user groups
  • Edible wild plant resources
  • Beekeeping and honey collection
  • Medicinal plants
  • Basketry
  • Bamboo
• Major forest products: wood
  • Blacksmiths and bellows
  • Canoes
  • Wood carving - household items
  • Building poles
  • Bean stakes
  • Fuelwood
• Sustainable use of wood products

New natural products with commercial potential

• The future

References

Personal communications

Acknowledgements

Acronyms