The Budongo Forest in Uganda is northwest of the capital city Kampala on the way to Murchison Falls National Park and is located on the escarpment northeast of Lake Albert.

[6][7] The area, situated between 1° 37 N - 2° 03 N and 31° 22 - 31° 46 E, is 435 km2 in extent and is composed mainly of moist, medium-altitude, semi-deciduous forest, with patches of savanna and woodland.

Some of the human activities carried out include; charcoal burning, illegal logging, poaching, mining and unsustainable agriculture such as rice farming.

[17][18] Classified as a moist semi-deciduous medium-altitude forest, Budongo supports various species of tree, the most impressive being, large buttressed giant mahoganies that have been left unfelled and now stand up to 60m tall.

[19] Chimpanzee tracking has become an activity popular with eco-tourists, necessitating behavioural guidelines for visitors in order to avoid undue disturbance of both animals and forest.

By 1995 some fifty individuals had been identified, and this figure remained constant until 2000 when the numbers started rising, thought to be due to an influx of chimpanzees from other areas.

[23][24][25] Richard Byrne, Cat Hobaiter and colleagues have been based at the Field Station to studying chimpanzee communication in the twenty-first century.