Kibale Forest National Park is the most accessible of Uganda’s rainforests and home to 13 primate species, including the common chimpanzee, Ugandan mangabey, red colobus, black and white colobus, L'Hoest's and blue monkeys. The lush and shady rainforest is interspersed with patches of grassland and swamps and giant forest hogs, bushbucks and mongoose are present.

Visitors can track the habituated chimpanzee troops on foot and birding opportunities abound with 325 species recorded. Community conservation efforts in the area include the Bigodi Wetland project.