Udzungwa Mountains 国家公园

东部弧形山脉--一连串古老的山脉，其中乌宗瓦是最大、生物多样性最丰富的山脉--赢得了一个在保护科学中很少被轻视的绰号： African Galápagos. The comparison is precise. As the Galápagos Islands produced endemic species through isolation surrounded by ocean, the Eastern Arc's isolated forest peaks produced endemic species through isolation surrounded by savanna. The forest on each mountain is an island. The savanna between them is the sea. Species could not cross. They evolved separately. The result is a park where the list of life found nowhere else on Earth reads like a catalogue of natural miracles.

仅乌宗瓦 (Udzungwa) 就占地 1,990 平方公里，拥有 2,500 plant species. 25% of which are endemic 到这些山。它有 非洲国家公园中生物多样性第二高的国家公园. Six primate species inhabit its forests, five of which are endemic. Of its 400+ bird species, at least four are found nowhere else in the world, including the Udzungwa forest partridge. Discovered in 1991 and more closely related to an Asian genus than to any other African bird, a fact that speaks volumes about the age and isolation of this ecosystem. New species continue to be discovered here: a new species of chameleon was found in 2009; the extraordinary Kipunji monkey. One of Africa's rarest. Was identified in the park's remote interior in 2005, the first new African monkey genus described in 83 years.

乌宗瓦 (Udzungwa) 于 1992 年在世界自然基金会的支持下建立为国家公园，是 东部弧形山脉唯一被列为国家公园的一段 --这一区别既反映了其独特的生物多样性，也反映了保护它的紧迫性。森林面临着周围农田、非法采伐和气候变化的压力。国家公园边界可以抵御这种压力，每次访问都有助于其长期防御。公园内没有道路。森林向所有不愿步行寻找的人保守秘密。