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Agricultural EstateSaudade

The place

Highland climate, mist, and the nearby Obô Natural Park. The estate lies in the Biosphere Reserve buffer zone.

Species register

The estate's working list. It separates endemic species from species introduced by people: the presence of an introduced species is not a conservation outcome.

  • Dwarf olive ibis

    Bostrychia bocagei

    Bird

    Critically endangered. Occurrence on the estate to be confirmed in the environmental impact inventory.

    EndemicPresence to be confirmed in the EIA inventory

  • Mona monkey

    Cercopithecus mona

    Mammal

    Introduced. Damages crops and pressures nesting birds. Subject to a management plan, not to celebration.

    IntroducedObserved on the estate

  • African civet

    Civettictis civetta

    Mammal

    Introduced. Local status and impact to be established by the faunal inventory.

    IntroducedObserved on the estate

  • São Tomé shrew

    Crocidura thomensis

    Mammal

    The island's only native land mammal. Presence to be confirmed.

    EndemicPresence to be confirmed in the EIA inventory

  • São Tomé podocarp

    Podocarpus mannii

    Plant

    The island's only conifer, endemic. Part of the agroforest emergent layer.

    EndemicObserved on the estate

  • Cocoa tree

    Theobroma cacao

    Plant

    Introduced in the nineteenth century. A shade-grown cash crop — not native flora.

    IntroducedObserved on the estate

  • São Tomé green pigeon

    Treron sanctithomae

    Bird

    Endemic to the island. Depends on fruiting forest — precisely what the agroforest provides.

    EndemicObserved on the estate