Sitatunga

Tragelaphus spekii · Bovidae

The sitatunga or marshbuck is a swamp-dwelling medium-sized antelope found throughout central Africa, centering on the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of the Congo, Cameroon, parts of Southern Sudan, Equatorial Guinea, Burundi, Ghana, Botswana, Rwanda, Zambia, Gabon, the Central African Republic, Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya. The sitatunga is mostly confined to swampy and marshy habitats. They occur in tall and dense vegetation as well as seasonal swamps, marshy clearings in forests, riparian thickets and mangrove swamps.

Where the Sitatunga lives

Recorded in Benin, Gabon, Zambia, Botswana, Congo, Dem. Rep. Congo, Uganda, Tanzania, Cameroon, Rwanda and Namibia (Africa).

Most records fall in Atlantique, Haut-Ogooué, Central, Ouémé, North-West and Ogooué-Maritime.

See the Sitatunga’s range on the globe

Conservation status

Least concern (LC). Not at risk: it is doing well in the wild. Categories are the IUCN Red List as republished by GBIF.

Sources

The range is a density of 927 georeferenced GBIF records, not an expert-drawn map. Description from Wikipedia.