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A “Lost forest” discovered in Mozambique

  • 24th February 2009
  • Robert

After all the excitement recently of Atlantis being discovered in the Atlantic on Google Ocean (which sadly turned out to be untrue), we are happy to report the successful identification of a “lost world”. UK scientists, using Google Earth, have successfully identified a lost forest in Mozambique in the Mount Mabu area.

Due to the terrain many Mozambique residents didn’t even realise that Mabu existed and it wasn’t marked on many maps. Despite this the experts are claiming it to be the biggest area of medium-altitude forest in Southern Africa covering over 7,000 hectares. More excitingly for them it was completely unexplored.

On an exploratory visit the botanists from the Royal Gardens in Kew have discovered new species of insect, snakes, monkeys and a host of new flora. Amongst the new discoveries was a new type of Pygmy Chameleon.

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