UC Berkeley: Camera Traps Document Wildlife's Return To Gorongosa National Park
Subscribe Animal populations in Mozambique's Gorongosa National Park have recovered in the decades since civil war wiped out most of the region's large mammals. But, new research shows that the distribution of species remains different than it was before the war. While many of Africa's iconic carnivores and ungulates are now rare, other animals, like these waterbuck, are numerous. (Photo by Jen Guyton) Mozambique's civil war, which raged from 1977 to 1992, took a devastating toll on wildlife in the country's famed Gorongosa National Park, a 1,500-square-mile reserve at the southern tip of Afr...