image:Global 200 - Eastern Africa Coastal Forests.jpg, Area of incidence in red
The Coastal forests of eastern Africa, also known as the East African Coastal Forests, is a tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, tropical moist forest region along the east coast of Africa. The region was designated a biodiversity hotspot by Conservation International.
The forests extend in a narrow band along the coast of the Indian Ocean, from southern Somalia in the north, through coastal Kenya and Tanzania to the mouth of the Limpopo River in southern Mozambique.
The World Wildlife Fund divides the coastal forests into two ecoregions: the Northern Zanzibar-Inhambane coastal forest mosaic, which extends from southern Somalia through coastal Kenya to southern Tanzania, and includes the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba Island, Pemba, and the Southern Zanzibar-Inhambane coastal forest mosaic, which extends from southern Tanzania along the Mozambique coast to the mouth of the Limpopo.
Gallery
File:Dense forest in doline (9710746328).jpg, A moist forested gulley at Pemba, Mozambique, Pemba, Mozambique
File:Deciduous forest with Hyphaene petersiana.jpg, Deciduous forest on the Yoloko inselberg near Pemba, Mozambique
File:Hildegardia migeodii - blue sky (8131504138).jpg, ''Hildegardia migeodii'', Malvaceae, a rare endemic of these forests
See also
* Arabuko Sokoke National Park
* KwaZulu-Cape coastal forest mosaic
* Maputaland coastal forest mosaic
External links
Coastal Forests of Kenya and Tanzania (Tanzania Forest Conservation Group)Coastal forests of eastern Africa (Conservation International)
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African Wild Dog Conservancy's Biodiversity Hotspots Page
Afrotropical realm
Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests
Forests and woodlands of Africa
Endemic Bird Areas
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