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ITFC as I
experienced it back then-
Aleper Daniel Knox
"It is long since I was in
Bwindi last, I hope to
return there again one day.
I got diverted from small
mammals from the forest to those from
savannah and am now studying
elephants, trees and bush
fire in North-Eastern
Uganda.
What I did in Bwindi at ITFC
is the marking/tagging at
100m interval of the trail
from Ruhija, starting below the
ITFC Director's house (1992)
across the forest through
Mubwindi swamp to Nteko,
then to Buhoma.
I recall a day I was alone in
the forest and ran into
'wild' Mountain Gorillas! But
I survived to tell the story. One day (independence day as I remember)
I got lost in
the forest at the bamboo
zone!. When I got back at
around 21.00 hours, the
Director blamed me for going
to the forest on
Independence day (a public
holiday)! I had wanted to
suggest putting trails with
tags in the bamboo zone too,
but the comment from the
Director discouraged me! I fear getting lost there again."
Aleper Daniel Knox is
a Research Fellow with
Norwegian University of Life
Sciences, Department of
Ecology and Natural Resource
Management, Norway
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