Savanna

Natural or mixed WHS that contain significant Savanna landscapes. Savanna is "a mixed woodland-grassland ecosystem characterized by the trees being sufficiently widely spaced so that the canopy does not close" (wiki). They are typically found in tropical and subtropical regions, such as Africa, South America, and Australia, in regions with a pronounced dry season.

Ecology

Connected Sites

Site Rationale Link
Canaima National Park Ca. 35% of the park: "The Sabana .. has been transformed into a human-dominated landscape that is a very distinct contrast with the tepui system where the truly outstanding universal values are found." (AB ev)
Cerrado Protected Areas "The site contains samples of all the key habitats that characterize the Cerrado ecoregion - one of the oldest tropical ecosystems of the Earth. It hosts more than 60% of all plant species and almost 80% of all vertebrate species observed in the Cerrado." (OUV), "The Cerrado is a vast ecoregion of tropical savanna in eastern Brazil" (wiki)
Comoé National Park " Comoé National Park contains a remarkable variety of habitats, notably savannas, wooded savannas, gallery forests, fluvial forests and riparian grasslands providing an outstanding example of transitional habitats from forest to savanna." (OUV)
Kakadu National Park "Its savanna woodlands and lowlands, which make up about 80% of the park, house a huge variety of plants and animals."
Lopé-Okanda "due to the relatively dry conditions prevailing in the area where the nominated property is located, the rainforest could not re-colonize all the space occupied by savannah; thus resulting in an unusual interface between dense and well conserved tropical rainforest and relict savannah environments" (AB ev)
Manovo-Gounda St. Floris "the largest park in the Central African savannas.... an interesting example of a “crossroads” where the species from savanna communities of East and West Africa, as well as those of the forest communities of the South, cross paths" (OUV)
Niokolo-Koba National Park "the Niokolo-Koba National Park is sufficiently vast as to illustrate the major aspects of the Guinean savanna-type ecosystem" (integrity statement)
Noel Kempff Mercado National Park Includes Cerrado savannah (AB ev); "the Huanchaca Plateau (Huanchaca Meseta or Serrania de Huanchaca), which at 42,000 hectares is one of the largest protected tracts of undisturbed cerrado in the world." (wiki)
Serengeti "the vast plains of Serengeti National Park, comprising 1.5 million hectares of savannah" (OUV)
W-Arly-Pendjari Complex "W-Arly-Pendjari Complex is the largest and most important continuum of terrestrial, semi-aquatic and aquatic ecosystems in the West African savanna belt" (OUV)

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