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ITFC has good
facilities
and experienced field staff for researchers wishing to
carry out fieldwork in and around Bwindi Impenetrable National Park,
available at reasonable fees.
ITFC-Bwindi now a site for Tropical Ecology Assessment and
Monitoring
(TEAM)
Since 2009, ITFC
is a site of global biodiversity monitoring programme of
TEAM.
TEAM
is a global network of field sites in tropical forests, where
climate and biodiversity data are collected, to monitor long-term trends in tropical ecosystems. ITFC
staff, in collaboration with the Uganda Wildlife Authority carries
out the data collection.
Standardized protocols, allow for comparison between all
sites.
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The Max
Planck Institute - Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVAN)
Since 1998, MPI-EVAN has led a research program of the ecology
and behaviour of the Mountain Gorilla in Bwindi NP. One group of
Mountain gorillas - Kyagurilo- was habituated for
research and has been observed daily by a team of ITFC field staff
for more than 10 years.
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The ecology
and life history of Stripe-Breasted
Tits
This
long-term study started
in 1995.
Its aim
is to examine the ecology and life history of
the Stripe-breasted Tit Parus fasciiventer, a small songbird
endemic to the Albertine Rift.
Two ITFC field staff were trained to
regularly check a series of nest-boxes regularly and make observations of
feeding and breeding success.
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ITFC the base station for searching the elusive Shelley's
Crimsonwing by RFCG
 The Rare Finch Conservation Group (RFCG),
a non-profit organisation of enthusiastic birders based in South Africa,
requested ITFC to host their search for the Shelley's Crimsonwing (Cryospiza
shelleyi).
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