Budongo Forest Reserve

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Covering 435 km², the Budongo Forest Reserve is East Africa’s largest remaining Mahogany forest, and boasts one exceptionally large tree measuring over 80 meters tall and some 20 meters in circumference. These are interspersed with iron-wood and 465 other tree species, which provide a home to 360 types of bird, some 290 butterflies, 130 moths, and 24 mammals, of which 9 are primates. The forest’s most famous residents are the resident chimpanzees, which were famously studied by Vernon Reynolds, Jane Goodall’s contemporary, in the 1960s. With the largest population of chimps in the country, the Chimpanzee Tracking experience here attracts visitors from around the world looking to see our nearest relatives in their natural habitat.