Hayli Gubbi, which rises to 500 metres (1,640 feet), is the southernmost volcano of the Erta Ale Range, a chain of low-lying ...

Sitting on the top of the world, the Simien mountains – Ethiopia’s highest peaks – are home to some of the country’s most remote communities and some of its rarest wildlife. Simien Mountain National ...

Mountain Research and Development, Vol. 38, No. 2 (May 2018), pp. 143-152 (10 pages) A study of vascular plant species composition, relative abundance, distribution, and anthropogenic threats to these ...

Mountain Research and Development, Vol. 37, No. 3, Focus Issue: Mountain Forests and the SDGs (August 2017), pp. 254-262 (9 pages) Forests play an important role in the provision of food and ...

Researchers have described a new chameleon species from the Bale Mountains of south-central Ethiopia and say it’s likely that more will emerge. Wolfgang Böhme’s Ethiopian chameleon is around 15 ...

Ethiopia's Bale Mountains National Park has reported a sharp rise in tourist arrivals and revenue, driven by major infrastructure upgrades and its growing international profile as a UNESCO World ...

A new species of puddle frog (order: Anura, family: Phynobatrachidae, genus: Phrynobatrachus), has just been discovered at the unexplored and isolated Bibita Mountain in southwestern Ethiopia. The ...

German photojournalist Mario Gerth has captured the incredible, dramatic landscape of northern Ethiopia in this collection of stunning black and white images. It includes shots taken in the Simien ...

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Feb. 14 (UPI) --Biologists have discovered a new species of frog living among the forests on a remote mountain in Ethiopia. The small frog's home is one of the country's last undisturbed forests.