Уганданың Мгахинга Горилла Ұлттық Саябағы

National Park in Uganda

Mgahinga Gorilla National Park is a national park in southwestern Uganda. It was created in 1991 and covers an area of .

Mgahinga Gorilla National Park is located in the Virunga Mountains and encompasses three inactive volcanoes, namely Mount Muhabura, Mount Gahinga, and Mount Sabyinyo. In altitude the national park ranges from and is part of the Nile River watershed area. It is contiguous with Rwanda's Volcanoes National Park and the southern sector of Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The area experiences two wet rainy seasons: February to May; and September to December. The average monthly rainfall varies from in October to in July.

The national park encompasses bamboo forest, Albertine Rift montane forests, Ruwenzori Virunga montane moorlands with tree heath, and an alpine zone at higher altitudes. The checklist of 76 mammal species includes black and white colobus, leopard, African bush elephant, giant forest hog, bushpig, buffalo, Cape bushbuck, black fronted duiker, and several varieties of rodents, bats and small predators. Of the Albertine Rift's endemic birds, the following were recorded in the national park during surveys in 2004: handsome spurfowl, dusky crimson wing, red throated alethe, Kivu ground thrush, Rwenzori turaco, Rwenzori batis, Rwenzori double collared sunbird, collared apalis, mountain masked apalis, Archer's ground robin, stripe breasted tit, blue headed sunbird, regal sunbird, strange weaver, montane nightjar, red faced woodland warbler and Grauer's swamp warbler.

Mgahinga Gorilla National Park is Uganda's smallest national park, receiving one of the fewest annual visitor numbers of any national park in Uganda. Popular tourist activities include mountain gorilla tracking, golden monkey tracking, volcano hiking, nature walks including to the gorge platform, bird watching and meeting the Batwa community. The park is also connected by daily domestic flights from Entebbe International Airport and on to Kihihi Airstrip, which land at Kisoro Airport.

Mgahinga Gorilla National Park was established in 1991 in an area that used to be a game reserve between the 1930s and 1950, but was partly converted to crop fields in lower altitudes. Biological surveys were initiated in 1989, wire traps destroyed, rangers trained and trees planted. Settlers were relocated to areas outside the national park's borders in the early 1990s.