Greater Mahale
Greater Mahale Refugia
A natural-color Landsat 7 image from NASA showing Mahale Mountains National Park (borders marked by thin yellow lines). The Mahale Mountains can be seen cutting straight through the center of the park.
NASA Earth Observatory satellite photo of Mahale Mountains National Park, 2001.
Image credit: NASA Earth Observatory
The Greater Mahale Ecosystem is a mosaic of miombo woodland, thin riparian forest corridors, larger patches of evergreen forest, and tracts of open grassland and seasonal swamps (McLester et. al. 2019). Mahale Mountains National Park, located on the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika, contains some of the Mahale Mountains range and is home to the largest known population of eastern chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii).
A chimpanzee glances up, lips wet with a creamy liquid, as it holds a melon-like piece of food.
Mahale Mountain National Park, Tanzania.
Photo: chriscthomas, Unsplash.com
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publications
Stuart, S. N., Stuart, S. N., Adams, R. J., & Jenkins, M. (1990). Biodiversity in sub-saharan Africa and its islands: conservation, management, and sustainable use (Vol. 6). IUCN.