The Uganda Wildlife Authority announced its findings on Tuesday, noting the data would also help make better “conservation investments” in the park.
There were 426 chimpanzees in Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable National Park last year, the Uganda Wildlife Authority announced Tuesday, a count that experts hope will help conservation efforts.
The state-run Uganda Wildlife Authority conducted the first-ever census of the endangered species there with support from the US-based conservation charity the Jane Goodall Institute in 2025.
The Bwindi Impenetrable National Park is in southwestern Uganda. The park is part of the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest stretches its land marks along the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) border next to the Virunga National Park and on the edge of the Albertine Rift. Composed of 321 square kilometres (124 sq mi) of both montane and lowland forest, it is accessible only on foot. The Impenetrable is a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization-designated World Heritage Site.
The Park is a home of various species of mammals and bird species ranging in a number of 350 bird species, 27 species of frogs, chameleons, and many endangered species. The park is among the most diverse forests in East Africa and Africa as well with more than 1,000 flowering plant species, including more than 200 species of trees and world ferns.
