There are 70 species of mammals that all range in different vegetation zones of Rwenzori Mountains National Park and they can be explored while on your Uganda safari. Other than mammals, the park protects diversity of endangered, endemic, threatened species and variety of Albertine rift bird species.
Some of the important wildlife Rwenzori Mountains National Park boasts of include l’hoest monkeys, forest elephants, blue monkeys, chimpanzees, leopards, colobus monkeys. Others include Rwenzori otters, antelopes such as bush bucks; reptiles like three-horned chameleons, amphibians etc.
Birds
Rwenzori Mountains supports a range of bird species totaling up to 217 and these include rare, threatened and endemic. Majority of the Rwenzori birds range at the lower zones including the red, green and blue birds, Rwenzori turaco, archer’s robin chat, mountain buzzard, barred long tailed cuckoo, slender billed starling, cinnamon chested bee-eaters, golden winged sunbird.