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Wildcam Gorongosa: Annotation Identify animals in trail camera photographs taken in the Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique. [45] 1 September 2015 Fossil Finder: Annotation Document surface images from fossil bearing landscapes in the Turkana Basin in northern Kenya to identify potential sites of fossils and stone tools for further ...
Gregory C. Carr (born 1959) is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist. His main philanthropic venture is the restoration of Mozambique's Gorongosa National Park, [2] which has been ravaged by Mozambican Civil War and environmental destruction.
Gorongosa National Park is at the southern end of the Great African Rift Valley in the heart of central Mozambique, Southeast Africa. The more than 4,000 square kilometres (1,500 sq mi) park comprises the valley floor and parts of surrounding plateaus. Rivers originating on nearby Mount Gorongosa (1,863 m (6,112 ft)) water the plain.
Juliasse Sabao, supervisor of the Gorongosa Coffee Project, says that before coffee came to the national park, many people there were subsistence farmers growing just enough maize, beans, and peas ...
Gorongosa National Park, halfway between Zimbabwe and Beira was a large tourist attraction. [ 3 ] After independence from Portugal in 1975, the Mozambican Civil War that took place in the newly independent country between 1977 and 1992 decimated the tourism industry and wildlife conservation in Mozambique. [ 1 ]
Gogogo Peak on Mount Gorongosa. Mount Gorongosa is an inselberg in Sofala Province of central Mozambique. Its highest peak, Gogogo, reaches an elevation of 1,863 meters (6,112 feet). It was created by Karoo Volcanism. [1] The upper zone of the mountain (above 700 meters) was made part of Gorongosa National Park by the Mozambican government in ...
Protected areas in Mozambique are known as conservation areas, and are currently grouped into national parks, national reserves, forest reserves, wildlife utilisation areas (coutadas), community conservation areas, and private game farms (fazendas de bravio). There are also a number of areas that have been declared as protected areas under a ...
Bazaruto National Park, Parque Nacional do Arquipelago de Bazaruto - Inhambane (1,463 km 2) [16] Gorongosa National Park, Parque Nacional da Gorongosa - Sofala (5,370 km 2) [17] Limpopo National Park, Parque Nacional do Limpopo - Gaza (11,233 km 2) [18] Magoe National Park, Parque Nacional do Magoe - Tete (3,558 km 2) [19]