Arabuko Sokoke Forest Reserve

The Arabuko Sokoke Forest Reserve is the largest surviving stretch of coastal forest in East Africa. It covers 420 square kilometers. Together with the adjoining Milda Creek, Arbuko Sokoke comprising an ecosystem of great diversity, containing rare species of birds, butterflies, amphibians and plants. There are butterfly species found here but not anywhere else in the world.
While Arabuko Sokoke is home to a large number of fascinating as well as a variety population of snakes, lizards, frogs and toads, it is its diversified birdlife for which the forest is locally and internationally renowned. With a high concentration of endangered bird species, Arabuko Sokoke is classified as one of the two most important sites for bird conservation in Africa. There are altogether some 230recorded species in the forest, which includes some of the rarest species such as the Amani Sunbird, Clarke’s Weaver, Sokoke Pipit is the last stronghold of the golden-rumped

elephant shrew and the Sokoke bushy-tailed mongoose.