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Uganda - Bwindi Impenetrable National Park

IUCN Management Category: II (National Park)
Natural World Heritage Site: Criteria iii, iv

Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (32,092 ha) is located in South-West Uganda. The park's rare afromontane vegetation provides one of the richest habitats in East Africa for birds, butterflies, trees and mammals, the latter includes chimpanzees and more than half of the world's remaining mountain gorillas - over 300 individuals. Sectors of the forest have been protected since the 1930s. The National Park was gazetted in 1991 and inscribed as a World Heritage Site in 1994.

Links:
http://www.unesco.org/whc/sites/682.htm
http://www.wcmc.org.uk:80/protected_areas/data/wh/bwindi.html