{"id":231401,"date":"2026-04-25T15:47:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T13:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-sky-island-expeditions-found-4-new-species-of-chameleon-already-at-risk-from-forest-loss\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T15:47:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T13:47:48","slug":"mozambique-sky-island-expeditions-found-4-new-species-of-chameleon-already-at-risk-from-forest-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-sky-island-expeditions-found-4-new-species-of-chameleon-already-at-risk-from-forest-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique &#8216;Sky Island&#8217; Expeditions Found 4 New Species of Chameleon &#8211; Already At Risk From Forest Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"60\">Tropical rainforests are known for their unique biodiversity, with species found nowhere else on Earth. But nearly 30% of tropical rainforest <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalforestwatch.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">has been destroyed or has become seriously degraded<\/a> since 1990. Many of these forests have not been fully explored for their biodiversity. This means that the world may be <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/livingplanetindex.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">losing species<\/a> before they are even <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1073\/pnas.2530656123\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">discovered by modern science<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">In Africa, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/discovering-the-forest-wonders-of-africa-and-the-threats-they-face-179313\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">forest loss<\/a> is rapid; about <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/pdf\/10.1126\/sciadv.abe1603\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">25% of the continent&#8217;s tropical forest has been lost since 1990<\/a>, against a backdrop&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604240004.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Mozambique\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/\">Mozambique<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tropical rainforests are known for their unique biodiversity, with species found nowhere else on Earth. But nearly 30% of tropical rainforest has been destroyed or has become seriously degraded since 1990. Many of these forests have not been fully explored for their biodiversity. This means that the world may be losing species before they are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":231402,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[258,256,54266,54265,6238,12142,9183,4704,682,257,9590,20782,254,20866],"class_list":["post-231401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chameleon","tag-expeditions","tag-forest","tag-island","tag-loss","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-risk","tag-sky","tag-south-africa-today","tag-species"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}