Kenya - Shimba Hills National Reserve, Kenya

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Shimba Hills National Reserve is located in the Coastal Province only 33 kilometres southwest of Mombasa. As the name suggests the reserve consists mainly of rolling hills. Most of the reserve is covered by grassland with some open woodland, as well as tracts of botanically rich coastal rainforest. This reserve supports the only viable population of the rare and endangered Sable antelope. Other animals found here are: buffalo, elephant, lion and leopard, baboon, bushbuck, Bush pig, giraffe, hyena.

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