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The World’s Largest Mammal Migration happens in South Sudan every year. However, War means No One Knows about it.
Researchers have released new maps documenting the “Great Nile Migration,” the Earth’s largest-known land mammal migration across South Sudan and Ethiopia.
The extensive aerial survey in South Sudan revealed an enormous migration of 6 million antelope – the largest migration of land mammals anywhere on Earth. It is more than double the size of the celebrated annual “great migration” between Tanzania and Kenya, which involves about 2 million wildebeest, zebra and gazelle.
The animals across the region have endured despite decades of civil war and instability in South Sudan.
The maps chart the seasonal movements of four antelope species, the white-eared kob (Kobus kob leucotis) and the tiang (Damaliscus lunatus tiang).
Every year, around 5 million white-eared kob and 400,000 tiang including 350,000 Mongalla gazelle and 160,000 Bohor reedbuck migrate across 100,000 square kilometers (38,612 square miles) of South Sudan’s wetlands and Ethiopia’s Gambella National Park.
South Sudan has a varied landscape, from rainforests to lush savannas and swamplands fed by the Nile River. It is home to an array of wildlife, but the country’s long history of unrest has made it hard to carry out scientific research.
Researchers have released new maps documenting the “Great Nile Migration,” the Earth’s largest-known land mammal migration across South Sudan and Ethiopia.
The extensive aerial survey in South Sudan revealed an enormous migration of 6 million antelope – the largest migration of land mammals anywhere on Earth. It is more than double the size of the celebrated annual “great migration” between Tanzania and Kenya, which involves about 2 million wildebeest, zebra and gazelle.
The animals across the region have endured despite decades of civil war and instability in South Sudan.
The maps chart the seasonal movements of four antelope species, the white-eared kob (Kobus kob leucotis) and the tiang (Damaliscus lunatus tiang).
Every year, around 5 million white-eared kob and 400,000 tiang including 350,000 Mongalla gazelle and 160,000 Bohor reedbuck migrate across 100,000 square kilometers (38,612 square miles) of South Sudan’s wetlands and Ethiopia’s Gambella National Park.
South Sudan has a varied landscape, from rainforests to lush savannas and swamplands fed by the Nile River. It is home to an array of wildlife, but the country’s long history of unrest has made it hard to carry out scientific research.