Threats and Preservation
Jebel Marra has been inhabited since antiquity and although the steep mountain valley areas are mainly unhinhabited and undisturbed, habitat on the more accessible slopes has been affected. In Chad the ecoregion is thinly populated, mainly by nomadic pastoralists. Recent conflict in both Chad and Darfur have meant that less agriculture is taking place and to an extent original flora is reestablishing.
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