Currently, the mountain gorilla’s habitat is limited to protected national parks in two regions of Africa. One group of gorillas lives in the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda. The other group is spread over three national parks in the Virungas mountain region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, and Rwanda.

In 2021 African elephants taxonomy was divided into two distinct species. At the same time African elephants were downgraded from Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List to Endangered for the African savanna elephant and Critically Endangered for the newly split African forest elephant.

The Ugandan population in Kibale National Park is the largest and it has been suggested that this is the only viable population with around 17,000 individuals. The Red colobus is endangered due to the decline in numbers, principally due to common chimpanzee predation and habitat loss.

All of the remaining Rothschild giraffes living in the wild are in protected areas in Kenya and Uganda.. The Rothschild giraffe is considered synonymous with the Nubian giraffe which is listed as critically endangered (distinction between them being separate species or the same species is  unclear).