Tanzania

Tanzania is extremely rare, here we have the broad biodiversity of the African plane, merged with a Jurassic park like
fascination. Linking both past and present together, as many important Hominid Fossils have been found in Tanzania, such as the 6 million year-old Pliocene Hominid Fossils. The genus Australopithecus ranged all over Africa
4-2 million years ago; and the oldest remains of the Homo genus are found near Lake Olduvai.
Most recently in the Rukwa Rift Basin located in southwestern Tanzania, a 70-million-year-old dinosaur skeleton has been found in Tanzania, according to South African Anthropologist, social and environmental activist, Ulrich J van Vuuren.

Conservation

Approximately 38 percent of Tanzania's land area is set aside in protected areas for conservation.

• Tanzania has 16 national parks, plus a variety of game and forest reserves, including the Ngorongoro
  Conservation Area.
• In western Tanzania, Gombe Stream National Park is the site of Jane Goodall's ongoing study
  of chimpanzee behaviour, which started in 1960
• On Tanzania's Serengeti plain, white-bearded wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus mearnsi), other bovids and zebra’s participate in a large-scale annual migration.
• Tanzania is home to roughly 130 amphibian and over 275 reptile species, many of them strictly endemic and
  included in the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red Lists of countries.
• A tower of giraffes can be found at Arusha National Park. The giraffe is the national animal.

Terrain

• Kalambo Falls in the southwestern region of  Rukwa  is the second highest uninterrupted waterfall in Africa,
  and is located near the southeastern shore of Lake Tanganyika on the border with Zambia.
• The Menai Bay Conservation Area is Zanzibar's largest marine protected area.
• The country is the site of Africa's highest and lowest points: Mount Kilimanjaro, at 5,895 metres (19,341 ft) above sea level, and the floor of Lake Tanganyika, at 352 metres (1,155 ft) below sea level, respectively

TZ Migration

Wildebeest Migration in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania. Each year, enormous herds of wildebeest and zebra
move thousands of kilometres across the Serengeti-Mara. These herds have a pivotal role in maintaining the
ecosystem.