Uganda Chimpanzee Tracking

Chimpanzee Tracking.

The chimpanzees are considered as man’s closest relatives with evocative pant –hoot call of African rainforest. Chimpanzee communities in Uganda have been conserved for tracking chimpanzees in the four national parks. Kibale National park is certainly worth protecting as it id a home to the largest number of our closest relatives, the endangered chimpanzees, as well as the threatened red colobus monkeys and the rare I’Hoest monkey .

This forest has one of the highest diversity and density of primates in Farce totaling 13 species. Chimpanzee habituation experience is also carried out in Kibale and it entails following up the Chimpanzees to make them get used to human presence without necessarily altering their natural behavior .Visitors carrying out this activity should expect to experience the chimps de-nesting  ( coming out of the nest)  and can follow then up to their daily activities up to nesting.

In Murchison falls National Park chimpanzee tracking is carried out in Kaniyo Pabidi forest. Visitors tracking chimps in this forest certainly see forest birds including the chocolate-backed kingfisher, the white-thighed hornbill and  puvel’s illadopsis found any where in East Africa. In Queen Elizabeth National park the chimps can be tracked in Kyambura Gorge. Habituated chimpanzees live in the 100m deep gorge carved by the Kyambura River as it flows across the rift valley floor towards the Kazinga channel.

Ngamba Island Chimpanzees Sanctuary on Lake Victoria offers Chimpanzee viewing, Chimpanzee forest walk and care giving.

Chimpanzee tracking regulations

• Visitors are advised to remain at a distance of at least 8 metres from the chimps
• Under no circumstances should any one chase the chimps while they are walking on the ground
• Visitors are not allowed to track the chimps while they are sick
• To urinate off the trail system when tracking
• Refrain from eating near the chimps
• Defecate off the trails and bury the wastes
• Children below 12 years are not permitted to track the chimps

There are for National parks in Uganda where chimpanzee tacking safaris can be organized . Budongo forest reserve, Kibale National Park is a Primatologists dream with a population of more than a 1000 Chimpanzees other primate species in Kibale include l’hoestes, red colobus, blue-red tailed and gray cheeked mangabey may be seen , Kibale Forest Reserve near Fort Portal, Pabidi Forest and Budongo Forest Reserve near Murchison Falls, Kyabura Gorge in Queen Elizabeth National park  and at the chimps santuary on Ngamba Island in Lake Victoria.

Look out for the Red Colubus (an endemic species only found in this forest in Uganda).We offer comfort and convenience of having your personal guide always at hand, ready to assist you with informative and enjoyable aspects of wildlife in Uganda.