Samrat Sarkar

It was the early days of July 1991. A team of Danish ornithologists set out on an ambitious biogeographic study of the forests nestled in Tanzania’s Udzungwa Mountains. Enigmatic and evergreen, these forests are considered some of East Africa’s most ecologically pristine and biodiverse regions. Among the region’s remarkable discoveries are the Rufous-winged Sunbird (Nectarinia rufipennis), first documented in 1981 and endemic to East Africa, and the Highland Mangabey (Lophocebus kipunji), a primate identified in 2005 — the first of its kind described in the area since 1984…read more NOPR