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 ...

It is a long way up to Entoto from Bole. This journey can require four or five taxis and can take about 40 minutes in total. Many make the trip to the renowned Entoto Maryam Church built by Emperor ...

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 ...

I'm standing close to the edge of a deep gorge, gazing out at the plunging drop framed by the misty blue haze of mountaintops when there's a movement in the grass behind me. I almost jump out of my ...

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 ...

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 ...

The van progressed at a pilgrim's pace, rattling along the rutted Ethiopian mountain road past the hamlets of huts and bouncing alongside the stream of donkeys, cows and schoolchildren making their ...

Bale Mountains National Park is situated in the Bale Mountains, which are a part of the Ethiopian Highlands. The park is spread across 2150 sq km and covers a wide range of altitudes, including the ...