{"id":235603,"date":"2026-06-07T17:15:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T15:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/africa-dozens-of-new-species-found-in-one-of-africas-last-biodiversity-blank-spots\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T17:15:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T15:15:53","slug":"africa-dozens-of-new-species-found-in-one-of-africas-last-biodiversity-blank-spots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/africa-dozens-of-new-species-found-in-one-of-africas-last-biodiversity-blank-spots\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Dozens of New Species Found in One of Africa&#8217;s Last Biodiversity Blank Spots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\"><em>A major survey of Angola&#8217;s remote Lisima plateau has uncovered species unknown to science, including new dragonflies, grasshoppers, moths and butterflies, confirming the highlands as one of Africa&#8217;s most exciting biodiversity frontiers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">High on Angola&#8217;s eastern plateau, in Moxico Province, lies one of Africa&#8217;s great almost-unknown treasures: the Angolan Highlands Water Tower.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">It&#8217;s a vast upland landscape of miombo woodlands, wetlands, grasslands, sandy soils and source lakes, where water begins&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606050111.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Angola\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/angola\/\">Angola<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A major survey of Angola&#8217;s remote Lisima plateau has uncovered species unknown to science, including new dragonflies, grasshoppers, moths and butterflies, confirming the highlands as one of Africa&#8217;s most exciting biodiversity frontiers. High on Angola&#8217;s eastern plateau, in Moxico Province, lies one of Africa&#8217;s great almost-unknown treasures: the Angolan Highlands Water Tower. It&#8217;s a vast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":235604,"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":[4262],"tags":[258,256,6287,4263,16449,20487,6709,257,254,20866,21704],"class_list":["post-235603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-africas","tag-angola-news","tag-biodiversity","tag-blank","tag-dozens","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-species","tag-spots"],"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\/235603","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=235603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}