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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 Africa s Great Rift Valley. During the war, violence and food insecurity drove many people to hunt wild animals to feed themselves, resulting in the loss of more than 90% of the large mammals in the park.