Bwindi impenetrable national park (BINP)

Plants and animals respond to climatic variations. Plants, in particular, are sensitive indicators of climate. Over the long evolutionary history,plants have adapted to the limits of moisture and temperature by assuming certain physical forms, dimensions and physiological attributes that enable them to cope with climate. At one extreme, where temperatures are hot and precipitation is high tropical forests are developed; at the other extreme of cold temperatures and low precipitation, arctic tundra(Smith 1996).

Most areas close to the equator have characteristic two peaks of rainfall and two dry season troughs (Pomero and service 1986). In Bwindi impenetrable national park (BINP), this the case also although during the 1992 and 1999 study period, there was a prolonged drought experienced that almost caused unimodal rainfall distribution. Actually the whole Country experienced a prolonged drought. Several areas in the country experienced famine due to the prolonged droughts and there were also several outbreaks of fires in and around BINP that caused considerable damage to the forest (Otim, 1994,Babaasa et al. 1999).

Neza Henry
United Org' for Batwa Dev't in Uganda(UOBDU)