Uganda
Uganda is a convergence zone for five of Africa’s important Ecological Zones and home to an estimate of half the world’s Mountain Gorillas which exist within a complex social and political environment. In recent years Uganda has been seen as a model case study for numerous and varied approaches to address complex and connected conservation and development challenges such as community-based conservation to payments for ecosystem services.
Protected and conserved areas designated as global sites of importance |
|
Global designation |
Number of sites |
UNESCO Man and Biosphere Reserves |
0 |
UNESCO World Heritage Sites (Natural or Mixed) |
1 |
Wetlands of International Importance (Ramsar sites) |
8 |
Source ((Ramsar, 2019; UNESCO, 2019a, 2019b)
Priority areas for conservation |
|
Designation |
Number of sites |
Alliance for Zero Extinction sites |
0 |
Important Bird & Biodiversity Areas |
42 |
Key Biodiversity Areas |
6 |
(AZE Secretariat, 2019; BirdLife International, 2019c, 2019a)