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The Bale Mountains National Park protects the largest area of Afro-alpine habitat in Africa and is the world’s most important stronghold for the Ethiopian wolf — a species so rare that fewer than 500 individuals survive in the wild. The Sanetti Plateau, at 4,000 metres, crossed by what is claimed to be the world’s highest all-weather road, offers the most reliable Ethiopian wolf sightings available anywhere on Earth.
The Ethiopian wolf (Canis simensis) is Africa’s most endangered large carnivore and one of the world’s rarest canids. Resembling a red fox but with the long legs and snout of a wolf, it feeds almost exclusively on giant mole-rats on the Afro-alpine moorland. In the early morning on the Sanetti Plateau, wolf sightings are almost guaranteed — groups of two to five animals are commonly seen hunting across the open moorland in clear view. For wildlife enthusiasts, a Bale Mountains morning is one of Africa’s great wildlife experiences.
The Sanetti Plateau is a vast Afro-alpine moorland at 3,800 to 4,200 metres elevation, studded with giant Lobelia plants that grow to four metres — prehistoric-looking columns that give the plateau a landscape unlike anything else in Africa. Beyond the Ethiopian wolf, the plateau supports mountain nyala, Walia ibex, reedbuck, and over 300 bird species including 16 endemic to Ethiopia.
Below the plateau, the Harenna Forest is the largest remaining intact mountain forest in Ethiopia — a primeval cloud forest at 3,200 metres supporting leopard, giant forest hog, colobus monkey, and a remarkable diversity of endemic birds. The forest trail system allows walking through ancient trees draped in lichen and moss in an atmosphere of extraordinary tranquility.
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