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São Tomé and Príncipe are two small oceanic islands in the Gulf of Guinea. Both are mountainous and deeply eroded by high rainfall. Undisturbed primary rain forest remains in the wettest areas of the south-west of each island on steep slopes in virtually inaccessible terrain. Although they have low overall biotic diversity relative to continental Africa, the islands harbour numerous endemic species as a result of their isolation: 109 plants, 26 birds, seven reptiles, seven amphibians and two species of mammal. Many of the terrestrial vertebrates survive well in habitats disturbed by man but others, especially some birds, are confined to pristine forest.
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Jones, P. (1992). São Tomé and Príncipe. In: Sayer, J.A., Harcourt, C.S., Collins, N.M. (eds) The Conservation Atlas of Tropical Forests Africa. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12961-4_28
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