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Cycads at Mpanga

Posted: August 13, 2008 in Mpanga Falls, Uncategorized

Draft text of a report sent by Andy Roberts to Oryx Magazine, July 2008 A colony of rare cycads, said to be the world’s largest, is threatened by a hydro-electric dam project in western Uganda.  The Vulnerable Encephalartos whitelockii is endemic to the Mpanga Gorge on the escarpment of the Albertine Rift Valley, the western [...]