The great mission of East Usambara Conservation Area Management
Programme is the conservation of biodiversity in these unique
mountains. Biodiversity surveys bring the baseline data for that
mission.
The biodiversity surveys cover the two series:
1.
Forest Surveys
2. Plant and Animal Surveys
The surveys are carried out forest area by forest area. During 2002 the surveys will reach the full coverage over East
Usambara forest reserves. The surveys are done as joint effort of the EUCAMP, Frontier Tanzania and University of Dar es
Salaam.
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1. FOREST SURVEYS
2. PLANT AND ANIMAL
SURVEYS
- Vascular
Plants - See the latest reptiles checklist.
East Usambara vascular plants are rather well studied during the past
100 years. The biggest species diversity is in this group: altogether
3502 plant species have been recorded in the mountains. Please
be aware that as the plants are many, the checklist file is also
rather big. It is worth noticing that latest record with many of
the plants is rather old. The fundamental question of the biodiversity conservation is: Do the
species, recorded some 20 or 50 years ago, still grow in the mountains?
- Mammals
- See the latest mammals checklist.
East Usambara mammals are rather few as compared to vascular plants
or birds. As it is a question of closed rainforests, there are no real
big African mammals in the mountains. Leopard is believed to still occur in the forest, but confirmed
observation is lacking.
- Birds
- See the latest birds checklist.
East Usambara birds are best known of all the faunal and floral species
diversity. The total number of bird species recorded so far, is 341, taking
into account observations on the mountain plateau, slopes and foothills.
The bird records are based on a number of published or otherwise
certified
references
- Reptiles
- See the latest reptiles checklist.
- Amphibians
- See the latest amphibians checklist.
- Butterflies
- See the latest reptiles checklist.
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