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Zimbabwe: 7 ecoregions. Each with its climate now and toward 2050, and its conservation tier.

Woodland savanna is the ruling vegetation in Zimbabwe: four of its seven ecoregions are tropical grasslands, savannas and shrublands, led by the dry miombo woodlands, with the Zambezian mopane woodlands, Zambezian Baikiaea woodlands, and Zambezian-Limpopo mixed woodlands filling the hotter, lower valleys and the south. The Kalahari xeric savanna reaches the drier southwest, a corner of the Southern Swahili coastal forests and woodlands touches the moist-forest biome, and the small Nyanga-Chimanimani Montane forest-grassland, ranked Nature Imperiled, marks the cool Eastern Highlands. The overall character is a seasonally dry, warm plateau where a long dry season shapes everything. Deciduous, fire- and drought-adapted trees and shrubs are the natural planting language, with the misty eastern mountains the one zone that supports genuinely moisture-loving montane plants.