Data from EIAs and other studies coordinated by the national forestry authority of Uganda
Latest version published by National Biodiversity Data Bank on Mar 14, 2026
This data was mobilized by the staff of the National Biodiversity Data Bank (NBDB) under the University of Makerere in the framework of the project funded by GBIF's BID programme coordinated by ARCOS. The dataset mainly contains taxa including higher plants and land animals.
Data Records
The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 14,911 records.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Downloads
Download the latest version of this resource data as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A) or the resource metadata as EML or RTF:
| Data as a DwC-A file | download 14,911 records in English (200 KB) - Update frequency: as needed |
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| Metadata as an EML file | download in English (7 KB) |
| Metadata as an RTF file | download in English (6 KB) |
Versions
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Rights
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The publisher and rights holder of this work is National Biodiversity Data Bank. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: f26cab28-9d52-4e97-b22b-f9fc179745b2. National Biodiversity Data Bank publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Uganda.
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Geographic Coverage
The dataset contains occurences from all over Uganda.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-2.724, 28.916], North East [4.39, 35.771] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
The dataset contains taxa of mammals, higher plants and insects.
| Phylum | tracheophyta (Vascular plants), mammalia (Mammals) |
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| Class | Insecta (Insects) |
Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1993-01-01 / 1995-12-31 |
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Project Data
This project being coordinated by ARCOS and it aims at increasing availability and accessbility of biodiversity data in the Albertine Rift region to support informed decision making in the domain of natural resources management.
| Title | The Albertine Rift Biodiversity Data Mobilization Project |
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| Identifier | BID-AF2015-0115-REG |
| Funding | The funding for the mobilization of data in this dataset was generously given by the European Union under the GBIF-coordinated project termed "Biodiversity Information for Development - BID) |
The personnel involved in the project:
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | f26cab28-9d52-4e97-b22b-f9fc179745b2 |
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| http://arbims.arcosnetwork.org/ipt/resource?r=nbdb_bid_2018 |