PRESS KIT Map of the Gorilla Highlands

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Lake Mulehe Muko Lake Bunyonyi Kateretere Bubale 5 mile Karengere 10 km Kabale Mutolere Echuya Kachwekano Bunagana Forest Mbarara Kisoro Bufundi Mgahinga Gorilla NP Cyanika Lake Lake Chaha Kayumbu

Rwanda Rubaya Katuna Overview of the Gorilla Highlands

Located in southwestern Uganda, the Gorilla Highlands • Bwindi Impenetrable National Park is a very old region encompasses the areas adjacent to two gorilla island of biodiversity, a lush rainforest set in a rugged national parks: Bwindi Impenetrable NP and Mgahinga landscape. It harbours 28 species of amphibians Gorilla NP. The region’s urban centres are Kabale, and 28 reptiles, at least 200 butterfly species, 350 Kanungu and Kisoro, each serving as the centre of its birds species and 120 mammal species, including 10 own district. primate species.

The Gorilla Highlands is a fascinating mixture of • Mgahinga Gorilla National Park is the smallest but volcanoes, rainforests and lakes. Some of the region’s quite possibly the greatest of Uganda’s parks. It boasts highlights: endangered golden monkeys and three Virunga volcanoes: Muhavura (4,127m) with a lake at the top, • Bunyonyi is one of the safest lakes in Africa – Mount Gahinga (3,474m) with a swamp-filled crater, it has no bilharzia, hippos or crocodiles. This beautiful and Sabinyo (3,669m) where Uganda meets Congo lake offers 29 islands and lives up to its name “place and Rwanda. of many little birds”; over 200 bird species have been recorded here. • Batwa hunter-gatherers were the original inhabitants of these forests. Bantu agriculturalists, now separated into the Bafumbira and Bakiga ethnic groups, started arriving about 2,000 years ago.

The Virungas, an interactive map from the Gorilla Highlands ebook

See also

www.gorillahighlands.com/ebook

www.gorillahighlands.com/trails The award-winning Gorilla Highlands Interactive eBook is a travel guide to southwestern Uganda offering practical information unavailable anywhere else. It is an astonishing combination of world-class photography, graphic design, illustration, audio, video and advice. Available on Apple’s iBookstore for $14.99.

For more information visit www.gorillahighlands.com/ebook Selected Team Bios

Miha Logar, project leader: Byekwaso Blasio, photographer:

Miha was born in Kranj, Slovenia in 1974. In 1999 he Blasio was born in Masindi, Uganda, in 1965. He is came to East Africa for the first time and returned the a forestry graduate who began to work alongside following year after completing his military service nature over 20 years ago. In 1999, after five years and journalism BA degree. In 2000 he started an MA as a Tourism Development Game Warden in Bwindi in Development Studies at Uganda Martyrs University, Impenetrable National Park, he gave up a salaried job where he founded Edirisa, a window for the world for a challenging but successful career of a freelance to see Africa and for Africa to see the world, in 2001. nature photographer. He is known for postcards and After graduation in 2002 he moved to Lake Bunyonyi books about national parks. in southwestern Uganda to help support a primary school, develop fair trade crafts and prepare cultural tours. Martin Aijuka Depories, artist: Martin was born in Kafunjo village in Kabale district, Uganda, in 1981. He obtained a BA at the School of Fine Art, Makerere University, in 2006. His favourite media are oil painting and drawing, while thematically he is focused on culture, history and tourism topics. He is also a Gorilla Highlands Trails tour guide.

The international team behind Gorilla Highlands; Martin on far left, Miha fifth from left, Blasio on far right; photo by Marcus Westberg Uganda

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