About us
Fauna & Flora International (FFI) has been working in Uganda virtually since our foundation well over a century ago. One of our most notable conservation interventions in more recent times has been through the groundbreaking collaboration known today as the International Gorilla Conservation Programme, which is conserving mountain gorillas across their three range states: Uganda, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. In the wake of a 2012 FFI report on sacred sites in Uganda’s Rwenzori Mountains, we also piloted an innovative approach to protected area management that demonstrated how cultural values could be integrated in order to improve outcomes both for conservation and the well-being of communities. This work focused on Rwenzori Mountains National Park and Lake Mburo National Park, later expanding to Semliki National Park and Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, and led to a greater appreciation of local communities’ cultural connections to and knowledge of nature, as well as improved relations with park authorities.
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