wildlife
Bwindi National Park, a UNESCO Natural World Heritage site is an
awe-inspiring area with over 200 species of butterflies and 350
species of birds. It is however the elusive Mountain Gorilla that
is the park's main attraction where roughly half of the world's
population, an estimated 320 mountain gorillas, live in this
forest. An estimated 116 of these gorillas are habituated. There
are many other primates in the park including chimpanzees, black
and white colobus, red colobus and blue monkeys, grey-cheeked
mangabey and L'Hoest's monkeys, which are classified as near
threatened and only seen in the Albertine Rift Valley. Bwindi
provides further shelter to antelopes, elephants and almost 400
species of plants.