Since its inception in 1990, Budongo Conservation Field Station has blended research and conservation to ensure sustainable management and utilisation of the Budongo Forest Reserve as a model for tropical rain forest management. In our new strategic plan we are aiming to continue generating world-class scientific research on primates as well as diversifying our research programme to encompass other biological taxa, and to use this information to support policy development, conservation action and sustainable resource management.

We welcome scientists and students from any institution to be part of this research programme. In addition, we plan to strengthen our community conservation programme by working with forest edge communities on projects aimed at improving their livelihoods while conserving the forest resource base. Among the conservation activities currently undertaken are environmental education for adults and school children, farm income generating activities that minimise dependence on forest resources, mitigation of human-wildlife conflicts and bush meat hunting.