Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
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How it came to be
Bwindi, on the eastern edge of the Albertine Rift in south-western Uganda, is where lowland and montane forest meet. Between 1,160 and 2,706 metres grow more than 200 tree species and about 104 ferns, possibly the most tree species for its altitude in East Africa.
In 1932 two blocks of the forest became Crown Forest Reserves, combined in 1942. In 1964 it became an animal sanctuary to protect its mountain gorillas, and in 1991 a national park. The Indigenous Batwa were then evicted and barred from the forest.
The forest holds almost half of the world's mountain gorillas, about 340, and is surrounded by some of the most densely populated farmland in tropical Africa. It was inscribed in 1994.
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