otherwise be allocated to more environmentally damaging land uses, thereby, helping to main- tain biodiversity.

Tourism in Uganda is largely dependent on the country’s biodiversity, which is increasingly be- ing relegated to the protected area estate (Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Murchison Falls Na- tional Park, Queen Elizabeth National Park, etc). Unfortunately, protected areas in Uganda are experiencing increasing pressure from burgeon- ing adjacent populations that experience limited benefits and increasing costs as a result of their proximity to wildlife, politically and economically- motivated degazettement, and limited government investment in their management and development of products and services.

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