South Sudan: An Unexplored Eden of Biodiversity

May 26, 2020 | Nick Perry, Agence France-Presse
View Original

South Sudan boasts Africa's biggest wetland, the Sudd, and its largest intact savanna, a stretch of untouched wilderness east of the White Nile that reaches all the way to Ethiopia. Every year, some 1.2 million antelopes and gazelles cross this enormous ecosystem—at 95,000 square kilometres (37,000 square miles), it is the size of Hungary. But South Sudan is also custodian to hardy populations of lions, elephants and countless other endangered species that survived—against all odds—decades of war and near-decimation by poachers.