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Some forest is being cleared on the edge of towns or for strip-mining. There are a number of Angolan national parks in the region. Some had to be abandoned at various times during the civil war due to fighting. 5.37% of the ecoregion is in protected areas. Protected areas in the ecoregion include: [1] Bicuar National Park; Buffalo Partial Reserve
Angolan miombo woodlands; Angolan mopane woodlands; Central Zambezian miombo woodlands; Southern Congolian forest–savanna mosaic; Western Congolian forest–savanna mosaic; Western Zambezian grasslands
Dry miombo is an open woodland of mostly deciduous trees, typically less than 15 meters tall with 30 to 60% cover. There shrubs and saplings form a discontinuous understory along with scattered understory trees, and grasses, forbs and subshrubs at ground level.
Wet woodlands are those receiving more than 1000 mm annual rainfall, mainly located in northern Zambia, eastern Angola, central Malawi, and western Tanzania. Wet miombo generally has a taller canopy (15 metres or more), more tree cover (60% or more ground cover), and greater species diversity than dry miombo. [2]
The southern Congolian forest–savanna mosaic is an ecoregion that covers a large area of the southern Democratic Republic of the Congo and northeastern Angola.Its rich blend of habitats provides key insights into the biogeography of central Africa with the extensive climatic variation that it has been experiencing for the last 10 million years.
Albertine Rift montane forests; Amsterdam and Saint-Paul Islands temperate grasslands; Angolan miombo woodlands; Angolan montane forest–grassland mosaic; Angolan mopane woodlands; Angolan Scarp savanna and woodlands; Arabian Peninsula coastal fog desert; Ascension scrub and grasslands; Atlantic Equatorial coastal forests
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Angolan miombo woodlands (5 P) C. Central Zambezian miombo woodlands (42 P) D. ... Angolan miombo woodlands; Angolan montane forest–grassland mosaic;