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Semuliki National Park

Index Semuliki National Park

Semeliki National Park is located in Bwamba County, a remote part of the Bundibugyo District, in western Uganda. [1]

63 relations: Albertine Rift, Allied Democratic Forces, Bay duiker, Biodiversity, Biogeographic realm, Bison, Bundibugyo, Bundibugyo District, Bushmeat, Butterfly, Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Chevrotain, Civet, Congo River, Cynometra alexandri, Deciduous, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Duiker, East Africa, East African Rift, Ecosystem, Elephant, Evergreen, Fort Portal, Galago, Geyser, Great Lakes Twa, Herbalism, Hippopotamus, Honeyguide, Hornbill, Hot spring, Hunter-gatherer, Internally displaced person, Köppen climate classification, Kibale National Park, Lake Albert (Africa), Lamia River, Landform, Leopard, Mineral lick, Mona monkey, National park, Population growth, Primate, Princeton University Press, Pygmy scaly-tailed flying squirrel, Queen Elizabeth National Park, Range (biology), Rwanda, ..., Rwenzori Mountains, Sassi's olive greenbul, Sea level, Semliki River, Subsistence agriculture, Swamp, Tropical rainforest, Uganda, Uganda Protectorate, Uganda Wildlife Authority, Virunga National Park, Volcanoes National Park, Wet season. Expand index (13 more) »

Albertine Rift

The Albertine Rift is the western branch of the East African Rift, covering parts of Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Rwanda, Burundi and Tanzania.

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Allied Democratic Forces

The Allied Democratic Forces (Forces démocratiques alliées; abbreviated ADF) is a rebel group in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and is considered a terrorist organisation by the Ugandan government.

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Bay duiker

The bay duiker (Cephalophus dorsalis), also known as the black-striped duiker and the black-backed duiker, is a forest-dwelling duiker native to western and southern Africa.

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Biodiversity

Biodiversity, a portmanteau of biological (life) and diversity, generally refers to the variety and variability of life on Earth.

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Biogeographic realm

A biogeographic realm or ecozone is the broadest biogeographic division of the Earth's land surface, based on distributional patterns of terrestrial organisms.

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Bison

Bison are large, even-toed ungulates in the genus Bison within the subfamily Bovinae.

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Bundibugyo

Bundibugyo is a town in Western Uganda.

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Bundibugyo District

Bundibugyo District is a district in the Western Region of Uganda, bordering the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

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Bushmeat

Bushmeat, wildmeat, or game meat is meat from non-domesticated mammals, reptiles, amphibians and birds hunted for food in tropical forests.

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Butterfly

Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths.

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Bwindi Impenetrable National Park

The Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (BINP) is in south-western Uganda.

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Chevrotain

Chevrotains, also known as mouse-deer, are small ungulates that make up the family Tragulidae, the only members of the infraorder Tragulina.

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Civet

A civet is a small, lithe-bodied, mostly nocturnal mammal native to tropical Asia and Africa, especially the tropical forests.

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Congo River

The Congo River (also spelled Kongo River and known as the Zaire River) is the second longest river in Africa after the Nile and the second largest river in the world by discharge volume of water (after the Amazon), and the world's deepest river with measured depths in excess of.

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Cynometra alexandri

The Uganda ironwood or Muhimbi (Cynometra alexandri) is a species of legume that occurs in tropical lowland forests of central and east Africa.

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Deciduous

In the fields of horticulture and botany, the term deciduous (/dɪˈsɪdʒuəs/) means "falling off at maturity" and "tending to fall off", in reference to trees and shrubs that seasonally shed leaves, usually in the autumn; to the shedding of petals, after flowering; and to the shedding of ripe fruit.

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Democratic Republic of the Congo

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (République démocratique du Congo), also known as DR Congo, the DRC, Congo-Kinshasa or simply the Congo, is a country located in Central Africa.

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Duiker

A duiker is a small to medium-sized brown in colour antelope native to Sub-Saharan Africa.

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East Africa

East Africa or Eastern Africa is the eastern region of the African continent, variably defined by geography.

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East African Rift

The East African Rift (EAR) is an active continental rift zone in East Africa.

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Ecosystem

An ecosystem is a community made up of living organisms and nonliving components such as air, water, and mineral soil.

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Elephant

Elephants are large mammals of the family Elephantidae and the order Proboscidea.

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Evergreen

In botany, an evergreen is a plant that has leaves throughout the year, always green.

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Fort Portal

Fort Portal is a town in the Western Region of Uganda.

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Galago

Galagos, also known as bushbabies, bush babies, or nagapies (meaning "little night monkeys" in Afrikaans), are small nocturnal primates native to continental Africa, and make up the family Galagidae (also sometimes called Galagonidae).

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Geyser

A geyser is a spring characterized by intermittent discharge of water ejected turbulently and accompanied by steam.

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Great Lakes Twa

The Great Lakes Twa, also known as Batwa, Abatwa or Ge-Sera, are a pygmy people who are generally assumed to be the oldest surviving population of the Great Lakes region of central Africa, though currently they live as a Bantu caste.

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Herbalism

Herbalism (also herbal medicine or phytotherapy) is the study of botany and use of plants intended for medicinal purposes or for supplementing a diet.

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Hippopotamus

The common hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius), or hippo, is a large, mostly herbivorous, semiaquatic mammal native to sub-Saharan Africa, and one of only two extant species in the family Hippopotamidae, the other being the pygmy hippopotamus (Choeropsis liberiensis or Hexaprotodon liberiensis).

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Honeyguide

Honeyguides (family Indicatoridae) are a near passerine bird species of the order Piciformes.

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Hornbill

The hornbills (Bucerotidae) are a family of bird found in tropical and subtropical Africa, Asia and Melanesia.

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Hot spring

A hot spring is a spring produced by the emergence of geothermally heated groundwater that rises from the Earth's crust.

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Hunter-gatherer

A hunter-gatherer is a human living in a society in which most or all food is obtained by foraging (collecting wild plants and pursuing wild animals), in contrast to agricultural societies, which rely mainly on domesticated species.

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Internally displaced person

An internally displaced person (IDP) is someone who is forced to flee his or her home but who remains within his or her country's borders.

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Köppen climate classification

The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.

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Kibale National Park

Kibale National Park is a national park in southern Uganda, protecting moist evergreen rain forest.

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Lake Albert (Africa)

Lake Albert, also Albert Nyanza and formerly Lake Mobutu Sese Seko, is a lake located in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Lamia River

Lamia River is a river in western Uganda in Bundibugyo District.

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Landform

A landform is a natural feature of the solid surface of the Earth or other planetary body.

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Leopard

The leopard (Panthera pardus) is one of the five species in the genus Panthera, a member of the Felidae.

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Mineral lick

A mineral lick (also known as a salt lick) is a place where animals can go to lick essential mineral nutrients from a deposit of salts and other minerals.

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Mona monkey

The mona monkey (Cercopithecus mona) is an Old World monkey that lives in western Africa between Ghana and Cameroon.

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National park

A national park is a park in use for conservation purposes.

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Population growth

In biology or human geography, population growth is the increase in the number of individuals in a population.

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Primate

A primate is a mammal of the order Primates (Latin: "prime, first rank").

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Princeton University Press

Princeton University Press is an independent publisher with close connections to Princeton University.

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Pygmy scaly-tailed flying squirrel

The pygmy scaly-tailed flying squirrel (Idiurus zenkeri) is a species of rodent in the family Anomaluridae.

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Queen Elizabeth National Park

The Queen Elizabeth National Park (QENP) is Uganda's most visited national park.

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Range (biology)

In biology, the range of a species is the geographical area within which that species can be found.

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Rwanda

Rwanda (U Rwanda), officially the Republic of Rwanda (Repubulika y'u Rwanda; République du Rwanda), is a sovereign state in Central and East Africa and one of the smallest countries on the African mainland.

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Rwenzori Mountains

The Rwenzori Mountains, previously called the "Ruwenzori Range" (spelling changed around 1980 to conform more closely with the local name Rwenjura), is a mountain range of eastern equatorial Africa, located on the border between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

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Sassi's olive greenbul

Sassi's olive greenbul (Phyllastrephus lorenzi), is a songbird in the bulbul family, Pycnonotidae.

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Sea level

Mean sea level (MSL) (often shortened to sea level) is an average level of the surface of one or more of Earth's oceans from which heights such as elevations may be measured.

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Semliki River

Semliki River (sometimes Semuliki) is a major river, long, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Uganda in Central and East Africa.

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Subsistence agriculture

Subsistence agriculture is a self-sufficiency farming system in which the farmers focus on growing enough food to feed themselves and their entire families.

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Swamp

A swamp is a wetland that is forested.

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Tropical rainforest

Tropical rainforests are rainforests that occur in areas of tropical rainforest climate in which there is no dry season – all months have an average precipitation of at least 60 mm – and may also be referred to as lowland equatorial evergreen rainforest.

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Uganda

Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda (Jamhuri ya Uganda), is a landlocked country in East Africa.

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Uganda Protectorate

The British Protectorate of Uganda was a protectorate of the British Empire from 1894 to 1962.

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Uganda Wildlife Authority

The Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) is one of the governing bodies that regulate wildlife conservation in Uganda.

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Virunga National Park

The Virunga National Park (Parc National des Virunga), formerly named Albert National Park, is a National Park that stretches from the Virunga Mountains in the south to the Rwenzori Mountains in the north, in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, bordering Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda and Rwenzori Mountains National Park and Queen Elizabeth National Park in Uganda.

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Volcanoes National Park

Volcanoes National Park (Parc National des Volcans Pariki y’Igihugu y’Ibirunga) lies in northwestern Rwanda and borders Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Mgahinga Gorilla National Park in Uganda.

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Wet season

The monsoon season, is the time of year when most of a region's average annual rainfall occurs.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semuliki_National_Park

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