The beatiful Lowveld
Wils South Africa
Kruger National Park
This ecoregion is one of the most important areas for large mammal diversity and biomass in southern Africa. Vegetation here is more nutritive than surrounding ecoregions with higher rainfall, and as a result, the area is well known for supporting large concentrations of ungulates. This includes some of the most significant remaining populations of black rhinoceros, elephant, white rhinoceros, hippopotamus, buffalo, blue wildebeest, giraffe, greater kudu, and nyala.
Predators are also abundant—lion, cheetah, African wild dog, spotted hyena, and leopard are found in a number of the ecoregion’s large protected areas. There are few if any endemic mammals but there is one near-endemic mammal species, Juliana’s golden mole. The ecoregion also contains a number of near-endemic reptiles, such as the two-toed burrowing skink, bluetail scrub lizard, and Sabi quill-snouted snake.
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The beatiful Lowveld
Wils South Africa
Kruger National Park
This ecoregion is one of the most important areas for large mammal diversity and biomass in southern Africa. Vegetation here is more nutritive than surrounding ecoregions with higher rainfall, and as a result, the area is well known for supporting large concentrations of ungulates. This includes some of the most significant remaining populations of black rhinoceros, elephant, white rhinoceros, hippopotamus, buffalo, blue wildebeest, giraffe, greater kudu, and nyala.
Predators are also abundant—lion, cheetah, African wild dog, spotted hyena, and leopard are found in a number of the ecoregion’s large protected areas. There are few if any endemic mammals but there is one near-endemic mammal species, Juliana’s golden mole. The ecoregion also contains a number of near-endemic reptiles, such as the two-toed burrowing skink, bluetail scrub lizard, and Sabi quill-snouted snake.
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