Title
Greater Virunga Landscape Large Mammal Surveys 2010
Author(s)
A.Plumptre, D.Kujirakwinja, D.Moyer, M. Driciru & A. Rwetsiba
Published
2010
Abstract
The Greater Virunga Landscape is one of the most biodiverse landscapes in the World, and contains more vertebrate species than any other landscape in Africa. Straddling the borders of Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda and Uganda it encompasses a great variety of habitats due to its wide altitudinal range (600‐5,100 metres a.s.l.) which contributes to this high species richness. A large part of the centre of the landscape is made up of savanna grassland and woodland (figure 1) in the Virunga and Queen Elizabeth National Parks, a habitat which can be surveyed by aircraft to estimate large mammal numbers.
Keywords
large mammals, aerial survey, elephants, buffalo, total count, SRF, Greater Virunga Landscape
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