The Bunyoro sub-region has also witnessed an influx of new businesses and migrants from non-oil districts that have come in search for the promise of better economic opportunities. The in-migration of both persons and businesses within Bunyoro has possible impacts on biodiversity resulting from settlement, planting, harvesting of fibre from wetlands, hunting, fishing, fuel wood collection, charcoal burning and increased stock numbers. Around the Bugoma Forest, land has been largely transformed for subsistence agriculture, resulting in increased pressure on the scarce natural resources, and illegal settlements in the forest reserves.

The term Bushmeat is used to describe the illegal and unsustainable commercial trade in wildlife for food which occurs in Africa and around the globe.Bushmeat may include illegal methods of hunting (snares and Guns); illegal species (endangered, threatened or protected); wildlife taken from un-authorized areas or hunting at unsustainable off take levels for commercial trade or non-commercial.