Africa: Dozens of New Species Found in One of Africa’s Last Biodiversity Blank Spots

A major survey of Angola’s remote Lisima plateau has uncovered species unknown to science, including new dragonflies, grasshoppers, moths and butterflies, confirming the highlands as one of Africa’s most exciting biodiversity frontiers.

High on Angola’s eastern plateau, in Moxico Province, lies one of Africa’s great almost-unknown treasures: the Angolan Highlands Water Tower.

It’s a vast upland landscape of miombo woodlands, wetlands, grasslands, sandy soils and source lakes, where water begins…