Forest trends within individual parks of four different protection categories between 2001 and 2009 as function of initial forest size in 2001 (log10-scale).

<p>For graphical display of forest trends we excluded (very small) PAs that increased their forests by more than 300%. Thus, we excluded five Forest Reserves: Mukugodo FR in Kenya (3.9 km², 822%; forest cover in 2001 and forest change), Ngaia FR in Kenya (0.2 km², 900%), Geita FR in Tanzania (0.2 km², 600%), Vumari FR in Tanzania (0.6 km², 433%), Mwalugulu FR in Tanzania (0.4 km², 450%). On this basis, we also excluded four National Parks: Rubondo NP in Tanzania (0.4 km², 800%), Murchison Falls NP in Uganda (14.5 km², 391%), Mago NP in Ethiopia (0.4 km², 3550%) and Ruma NP in Kenya (1.1 km², 440%).