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This is a populous part of Angola and farming, logging and uncontrolled hunting are all affecting the forest habitats and the large mammals in particular are now rare. Until the 1970s the cloud forest area on the escarpment was used for planting coffee, which meant clearing the undergrowth, but coffee growing ceased during the Angolan Civil War ...
This area of savanna and woodland covers an area of plateau and gentle hills in central Angola, in the Cubango-Zambezi Basin which drains into the Zambezi River to the east. The area lies east of the range of hills that parallel the Atlantic coast and north of the Kalahari Desert reaching up as far as the rainforests of the Congo.
The Angolan miombo woodlands lie to the southeast and south. The Angolan Scarp savanna and woodlands lies to the southwest along the Atlantic coast, extending south from the Congo River's mouth. The cities of Kinshasa and Brazzaville , capitals of the two Congo republics, are in the ecoregion, located opposite one another on the Congo River.
The following is a list of ecoregions in Angola, according to the Worldwide Fund for Nature ... Angolan scarp savanna and woodlands; Deserts and xeric shrublands
The following ecoregions have been described in Angola: Angolan Scarp savanna and woodlands, the steep coastal escarpment. Angolan montane forest-grassland mosaic, the inland slopes of the central highlands which are covered in grassland and contain the remaining patches of mountain woodland;
Angolan montane forest–grassland mosaic; Angolan Scarp savanna and woodlands; Atlantic Equatorial coastal forests; C. Central African mangroves;
These inland slopes are mostly covered with grassland and savanna. The woodland once covered a much larger area but today only patches survive, mainly in deep ravines and on the higher peaks in Huambo and Cuanza Sul provinces, such as Mount Moco (2,620 m), Mount Mepo (2,582 m), Mount Lubangue (2,554 m), Mount Namba (2582 m), and on the Serra da Chela in Huíla Province.
Angolan scarp savanna and woodlands: Angola: Afrotropical: Montane grasslands and shrublands: Drakensberg alti-montane grasslands and woodlands: Lesotho: Afrotropical: Montane grasslands and shrublands: Drakensberg alti-montane grasslands and woodlands: South Africa: Afrotropical: Montane grasslands and shrublands: Drakensberg montane ...