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Meet Mike Nixon - He s climbed Mount Everest (twice) and has competed in every Cape Epic

Mike Nixon has climbed the seven highest summits on each continent. He is also one of only four people who have ridden every edition of the Cape Epic. Mike recently rode 4000km delivering meals along with adventurer Kingsley Holgate. Mike Nixon has climbed Mount Everest twice, something very few people will ever achieve, once. He is also one of only four people to have competed every stage of every edition of the Cape Epic, the world’s toughest mountain bike race. While on expedition with Kingsley Holgate, Nixon has had the opportunity to ride his bicycle in some incredible places including the entire length of the Great African Rift Valley from Djibouti on the horn of Africa to Lake Urema in northern Mozambique and the entire length of the Lebombo Mountains.

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Animals Back at Mozambique Gorongosa National Park After Civil War, but Savanna Community Not Same

But that’s where the similarity ends. “When you take a closer look at the distribution of species, it’s a bit out of whack,” Gaynor said. The large herbivores that were dominant before the war iconic African animals like zebra, wildebeest and hippopotamus were rare. Large carnivores were rarer still, with only lions remaining after the war. The savanna now belonged to baboons, warthogs, bushbuck and especially waterbuck, which dominated the survey. “Waterbuck have been reproducing exponentially,” Gaynor said, adding that it remained to be seen whether the unchecked population might crash and stabilize, or if their dominance signaled a “new normal” for the park.

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The savanna isn t the same after Mozambique s civil war

Animals have returned to Gorongosa National Park after Mozambique’s civil war, but the savanna community doesn’t quite look like it used to, researchers report. When civil war broke out more than 40 years ago, it largely spelled doom for animals in the park, a 1,500-square-mile reserve on the floor of the southern end of the Great African Rift Valley, in the heart of the country. As the decades-long fighting spilled over into the reserve, many of the creatures became casualties of the conflict. “More than 90% of the large mammals in the park were wiped out.” Throughout the war and even for some time after, food insecurity drove people to kill the animals to feed themselves. The hunting and poaching hit large mammals the hardest.

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Animals are back at Gorongosa National Park after civil war, but savanna community doesn t look quite look like how it used to

Animals are back at Gorongosa National Park after civil war, but savanna community doesn t look quite look like how it used to
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After a civil war, Gorongosa National Park savanna doesn t quite look the same

After a civil war, Gorongosa National Park savanna doesn t quite look the same
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