While savannas are located on six of the seven continents, the largest are found in equatorial Africa. The savanna climate varies according to the season. In the wet season, the weather is warm ...

Forests located close to the Equator receive ... Most of sub-Saharan Africa’s agriculture takes place in savanna areas which support most of the continent’s cropland and pasture areas.

Secondly, rangeland in Africa constitutes nearly 43 percent of the continent and this is where the savanna grassland ecosystem is located. In this rangeland, livestock farming is practiced by many ...

More information: Timothy H. Tear et al, Savanna fire management can generate enough carbon revenue to help restore Africa's rangelands and fill protected area funding gaps, One Earth (2021). DOI ...

A defining feature of savanna ecosystems is the coexistence ... and disturbance-determined (‘unstable’) savannas in Africa. The patterns described here for African savannas suggest that ...

TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network, has highlighted a new report, entitled Illegal Hunting and the Bush-Meat Trade in Savanna Africa: Drivers, Impacts and Solutions to Address the ...

The Great Elephant Census was conducted over three years, and set out to effectively count every savanna elephant in 18 countries in Africa, accounting for 93 percent of the savanna elephants in ...