Checklist of small mammals of Bukaleba Forest Reserve, Uganda

The data on checklist of small mammals in Bukaleba Forest reserve was collected by the Forest Department of Uganda under the ‘Natural Forest Management and Conservation Project’ (No. 6100.37.42.015) and the project of ‘Institutional Support for the Protection of East African Biodiversity’ (UNO/RAF/006/GEF). These data were collected from 1993 to1995 and published in a series of reports edited by Howard and Davenport (1996). The purpose of sampling the small mammals, as with the other taxa, was to compile as complete a species list as possible to enable comparison between sites and assist with the identification of conservation needs and priorities in Uganda's forests. Uganda supports an extremely high number of mammal species, second to Zaire in Africa and ranked ninth in the world (McNeely et al; 1990). Over 125 species from the mammalian orders Insectivora, Macroscelidea and Rodentia (excluding families Sciuridae, Anomaluridae and Hystricidae) are recorded from Uganda (Davies and Vanden Berghe, 1994); including three national and twelve Albertine Rift endemic species. The data have been mobilized by the staff of the A Rocha Uganda and A Rocha International under the project "Raising the profile of data for the conservation of four forested African landscapes" funded by GBIF's BID Programme, and coordinated by A Rocha Kenya. The mobilized data was based on records collected between May,1993 and March,1995 using a combination of break back and Sherman traps.