Selous-Niassa Wildlife Corridor

Natural HeritageThe Selous - Niassa Miombo woodland ecosystem as a whole is the largest trans-boundary natural dry forest ecosystem in Africa covering 150,000 km2 and extends across southern Tanzania into neighbouring Mozambique. The wide variety of wildlife habitats - forests, wooded grasslands, open savannahs, granite inselbergs, seasonal and permanent wetlands and rivers - account for globally significant biodiversity. The core conservation areas for its continued existence are: The Selous – Niassa Wildlife Corridor provides a significant biological link between the two reserves and consequently for the Miombo woodland eco-system, thus conserving one of the largest elephant ranges in the world containing also approximately 13% of the world’s remaining wild dog population. In total the corridor has a size of approximately 17.030 km2. Starting at the most southern border of Selous Game Reserve the corridor extends over 160 km south until reaching Ruvuma River, the border of the Niassa Reserve in Mozambique, where it has a width of 176 km following the river’s course. Long-term conservation management of the Selous and two communal Associations Mbarang’andu and Nalika adjacent to the Selous resulted into