In Kenya the prevailing environment is the savannah, the characteristic habitat of herds of herbivores (antelopes, gazelles, giraffes, buffaloes, zebras, elephants) and their predators (lions, leopards and cheetahs): while in the driest areas in the north becomes a desert plateau, the edge of the long mountain ranges and near the rivers there are traces of the original rainforest. The climate is crucial to the natural vegetation: the land, consisting of fragments of volcanic rocks, is very fertile but the vegetation is not as it should be developed at this latitude, for the low abundance rainfall alternating with two dry seasons typical of the dry savanna and steppe. We find isolated stretches of grass with a bottle-shaped baobab trees, sycamores, acacias thorny umbrella, Euphorbia candelabrum and other succulents plant. In the humid savannah grasses grow to three meters and trees are most common, until the limited tropical forest that extends only to the slopes of the mountain ranges where it rains a lot, with Mangroves, Bamboo and giant Lobelie up to the palm beaches.
mangroves |
bamboo forest |
palm trees |
umbrella acacias
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giant lobelia
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baobab |