experience
a living presence
unfolding in front of our eyes
shrubland and moorland at around 4000 metres. An equally diverse variety of life spans these habitats: buffaloes, bushpigs, and black-fronted duikers; forest elephants and golden monkeys; around 200 bird species, including 17 Albertine Rift endemics; and so much more. If you’re lucky, you might see a flash of glossy, red-tipped purple wings – a bolt of colour that is the Rwenzori turaco. Not only is the park home to incredible biodiversity, but the preservation of this life and the research it supports, in turn, supports local livelihoods through the vocation of conservation – an ecosystem in and of itself.
The communities that border the park live just a few metres from its edge, tending crops and cattle on the land they depend on. Beside them lies another, wilder world. These two worlds do and must exist in parallel. To understand conservation is to hold both perspectives at once: the vast, long view of protecting nature into the future, and the quiet attention to its smallest details – the moss clinging to stone, a bird moving through bamboo. When we truly look, what once felt distant comes into focus, and the forest is no longer an idea beyond us, but a living presence unfolding in front of our eyes.
Right Multiple microclimates foster layers upon layers of life forms.
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