Burundi

Burundi is hilly and mountainous, home to the crest of the Nile-Congo watershed. It is landlocked, but includes shoreline of Lake Tanganyika. Most of the country is used for human activities, in its majority by rainfed agriculture. Burundi has high biodiversity rarity of terrestrial land vertebrates at a global scale. When analysed as single taxons, the rarity of amphibians, birds and mammals is also high. Challenges to biodiversity include soil erosion and deforestation.