Sahelian Acacia savanna

The Sahelian Acacia savanna is a broad transitional belt across the Afrotropics that separates the Sahara Desert to the north from the more humid Sudanian savannas to the south, stretching some 5,900 km from the Atlantic coast of Senegal and Mauritania eastward to the Red Sea in Sudan and Eritrea and crossing roughly a dozen countries including Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon, and the Central African Republic. Its characteristic cover is wooded grassland: thorny shrubs and small trees dominated by Acacia (Acacia tortilis is the most common), alongside Balanites aegyptiaca, Boscia senegalensis, Commiphora africana, baobab (Adansonia digitata), Faidherbia albida, and shea (Vitellaria paradoxa), with annual grasses such as Cenchrus biflorus and Aristida species filling the open ground. The climate is tropical, hot, and strongly seasonal, with rainfall averaging around 600 mm in the south and declining to roughly 200 mm in the north, and frequent droughts are a defining feature. The African spurred tortoise is the ecoregion's flagship species, while endangered large mammals such as the dama gazelle, red-fronted gazelle, and western giraffe now survive mainly within a handful of protected areas in the central Sahel. For gardeners, the region is the native home of several heat- and drought-hardy ornamental and useful trees, including the baobab and shea.

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