Hello every one,I have a great pleasure to introduce the O.A.N monitoring team to you so that you know them. These people must make a long walk in the thick mountainous equatorial forest of Ruwenzori, climbing up steep slopes through thick greenish forest ever vigilant, hoping for a glimpse,at a very least of the the chimps. The hike is strenuous, so frequent stops are needed to catch one’s breath . But I do appreciate the great job these people are doing and go through every day.

One of the aspects of the environment on which the monitoring team carry out their daily activities

The first one to introduce will be Mr Philemon,he is within the bush tracking chimps in the mountainous area tracking the chimps ,as we were not likely to meet them , as usually as far as they still wild. He is showing me one of the fruits on which the great apes were foraging on. Mr Philemon and his team are used to meet these great apes during his daily routine activities, the problem is he does not have any camera, otherwise he could be providing all of you with a lot of pictures of the great apes.

Such good initiatives of having local people involved in conservation will ultimately lead to the effective conservation of one of the world’s most incredible habitat.

Me with all the monitoring team tracking chimps,they are used to the mountainous zone and have got high speed,they do fascinate me by their speed at which they climb the sloping area but unfortunately we saw another more indirect evidence testifying the presence of the great ape in the area, the fresh chimp’s dung as shown below on the picture:

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