Biodiversity & conservation

Plants and animals of Lango

A living register of species, traditional medicinal plants and conservation hotspots — built with community sightings reviewed by experts.

Least concern

Sylvicapra grimmia

Duikers are small antelope that dive into cover when disturbed. Several Lango clans have rules about the duiker, called amor: in…

Vulnerable

Hippopotamus amphibius

Driberg wrote that the hippopotamus lived along the Nile and was occasionally seen in Lake Kyoga, and that one had even been…

Vulnerable

Panthera pardus

The leopard is a large spotted cat. In Lango it is called kwaich, and it is the totem of the Jo Akwaich clan, who do not hunt it…

Near threatened

Erythrocebus patas

The patas monkey is a long-legged monkey of open country and the fastest-running of the primates. Driberg listed the “red…

Least concern

Kobus kob thomasi

The Uganda kob is a reddish antelope of grassy plains near water, and is on Uganda’s coat of arms. Driberg wrote of the…

Least concern

Kobus ellipsiprymnus

The waterbuck is a large antelope that stays near water. Its hide is forbidden to women, or to everyone, in many Lango clans…