Sentence examples for savanna from inspiring English sources

If the pressures are maintained, soil loss and irreversible change in the ecosystem may ensue, so that areas formerly under savanna or scrubland vegetation are reduced to desert.

For most of its length, the Orinoco flows through impenetrable rain forest or through the vast grassland (savanna) region of the Llanos ("Plains"), which occupies three-fifths of the Orinoco basin north of the Guaviare River and west of the lower Orinoco River and the Guiana Highlands.

Towns dating from precolonial times are found mainly along the Nile valley and the Mediterranean fringe of North Africa where many date from Classical times (e.g., Alexandria, Egypt) and the late 18th century (e.g., Fès, Morocco)—and also in western Africa, in both forest and savanna zones, where they were the seats of governments of kingdoms.

The plains zebra (E. quagga) formerly inhabited a great area of grassland and savanna from the Cape to South Sudan.

It is found in a range of habitats—open grassland, savanna, forests, and hilly country—and appears to be mainly a grazer, raiding grain fields in some areas.

It is grown extensively in the irrigated desert oases of the Peruvian coast and in savanna and rain forest climatic areas of Brazil and Colombia.

They live in woodland savanna intersected with strips of rainforest along the rivers, swamps, and marshlands.

In late May or June one major group moves west into the park's woodland savanna and then north into the grasslands just beyond the Kenya-Tanzania border, an area known as the Mara (Masai Mara National Reserve).

Soils are of two types: those of the equatorial areas and those of the drier savanna (grassland) regions.

Savanna-type vegetation is predominant in Togo.

Savanna-la-Mar, town and port, southwestern Jamaica, on an open bay at the mouth of the Cabarita River, west-northwest of Kingston.