ATBI site 673

Udzungwa Mountains National Park
Tanzania
Africa
Contact: Dr. Nikolaj Scharff, Natural History Museum Copenhagen, Denmark

In 2006 proposed by: Prof. Dr. Henrik Enghoff, Natural History Museum of Copenhagen, Denmark
In 2007 proposed by: Dr. László Peregovits, Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, Hungary

This proposal is the result from discussions among a long list of researchers, find details here: http://www.atbi.eu/forum/?q=forum/6.

The Eastern Arc mountains form the “hottest” of Continental African biodiversity hotspots with only few, poorly studied patches of pristine habitats remaining. Multiple nature reserves were proposed as ATBI+M site in East Africa (Mt. Kilimanjaro by Andreas and Claudia Hemp, and Mahale forest by Viola Clausnitzer) of which the proposers agreed to collaborate on ATBI activities in a limited set of focal sites in the Eastern Arc mountains.
Online (www.atbi.eu/forum), a group of taxonomists was assembled consisting of EDIT members from Brussels (Belgium), Copenhagen (Denmark) and Budapest (Hungary), as well as some taxonomists from non-EDIT institutions and universities. The Natural History Museum of Copenhagen, Denmark, has worked together with Tanzanian institutions to set up the Tanzanian GBIF-node TanBIF. In June 2007, Thomas Pape of the NHM Copenhagen, visited the Eastern Arc mountains region to discuss the feasibility of long-term ATBI+M activities, which will be followed up with fieldwork and collection digitisations.

Thomas Pape has visited the area for a feasibility assessment, download the report here:
http://www.atbi.eu/forum/?q=node/44

Udzungwa National Park: http://sea.unep-wcmc.org/wdpa/sitedetails.cfm?siteid=19297&level=nat (Category II)
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Click to download Pregovits_Eastern_Arc_ATBI-proposal-2007_03.pdf


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