Mount Mabu

Mount Mabu is a mountain in northern Mozambique. It is famous for its old-growth rain forest. Mount Mabu is approximately  high, and the forest covers about . Mount Mabu is well-known by local people, but the Mabu forest and its extremely diverse wildlife were unknown to plant and animal scientists until 2005. A team of scientists from the Mulanje Mountain Conservation Trust (MMCT) and several ornithologists visited it after browsing Google Earth in 2005.  In 2008, there was another visit by scientists from Kew Royal Botanic Gardens; they browsed Google Earth's satellite view to look for potential unknown wildlife hotspots in Africa. It is frequently referred to as the "Google Forest". It forms part of a proposed ecoregion, to be called the South East Africa Montane Archipelago (SEAMA).

 Habitations 
There are communities living around Mount Mabu. The closest are Nangaze, Nvava, and Limbue. The mountain plays a crucial role in the lives of these communities. The communities' resort to the mountain for protection, animal protein, smallholding, foraging, and traditional ceremonies – mucutu  in the present. These activities have generated a wealth of local knowledge about the Mountain that is yet to be explored in association with the growing interest on Mabu. In their cosmology Mount Mabu is a moral subject that needs to be respected.

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Category:Geography of Mozambique