Tanzania

Tanzania is located on the coast of Eastern Africa, with a border along the Indian Ocean. Coastal plains rise to a central plateau and highlands. Mt. Kilimajaro, the highest peak in Africa, is located in Tanzania, and three of the continent’s largest lakes like along its borders: Lake Victoria, Lake Nyasa, and Lake Tanganyika . Most of the country is used for human activities, in its majority by rangeland. Tanzania has high biodiversity rarity of terrestrial land vertebrates at a global scale. When analysed as single taxons, the rarity of amphibians, birds, mammals and reptiles is also high. The rarity of marine fish and mammals is also high. Challenges to biodiversity include water pollution; soil degradation; deforestation; desertification; coral reef destruction; and wildlife hunting.