DID YOU KNOW? The tallest tree in Africa discovered in Kilimanjaro.

Africa’s tallest indigenous tree of about 81.5 metres – that has been discovered in a remote valley on the foot of highest mountain, Kilimanjaro.

 

 

 

 

Kilimanjaro National Park (KINAPA) one of the 16 national parks in The country which is under the Tanzania National Parka (TANAPA) is exploring strategies to maximally exploit tourist potentials of the tallesttree in Africa, found in Kilimanjaro region.
 Speaking during the regional leaders’ tour of the tree at Mrusunga, Kidia area led by the Kilimanjaro Regional Commissioner, Saidi Mecky Sadiki accompanied by the Moshi district Commissioner, Kippi Warioba, KINAPA Chief Park Warden Bertita Loibooki, he said that, the unique tree has the potentials of attracting more tourists.Loibooki said here that having around the tree which is 81.5 metres is a tourism millage, noting that KINAPA will conserve it by any means possible to enable people from different corners of the world to see it.