ABSTRACT
This chapter shows that Bwindi Impenetrable National Park is a celebrity site for conservation and development within Uganda. In 1932 the British colonial government enacted legislation for the gazettement of Bwindi Impenetrable Forest Reserve under the district administration. In 1964, the Game Act established the Bwindi Impenetrable Game Reserve and put restrictions on hunting, mainly to protect the endangered mountain gorillas. Indeed, Bwindi is arguably one of the earliest sites anywhere in the world to experience such a wide range of integrated conservation and development interventions. Bwindi has been the site of multiple interventions, carried out by various combinations of these actors, often with combined conservation and development objectives. With the park management conflicts experienced in Bwindi, donor and development agencies influenced the Uganda National Parks to change its paramilitary approach strategy to one that focused on the involvement of local people in park management.
