Location

It is located between Shinyanga Kigoma and Tabora, rich in wildlife diversity and insects, including bees. (See the Map)

It is within the Malagalasi-Moyowosi wetland, which is the large and excellent example of an East African floodplain wetland ecosystem in good condition. The wetland provides an important dry season refuge and feeding area for migratory animals including many water birds and large mammal species. It is also is an important breeding area for rare water birds including the wattled crane and shoebill stork

Vegetation

The area is dominated with grassy swamps to the south and open Miombo woodland to the north, allowing the Moyowosi, Nikonga, Kigosi and Gombe Rivers flow through the flood plain.

Wildlife Attraction

The inaccessibility to this reserve contributed to the concentration rare water birds including the wattled crane and the shoebill stork. As it is in Moyowosi, the reserve provides perfect and excellent habitation for elusive sitatunga, waterbuck, buffalo, it is also considered to harbour large number of lions. There is considerable number of islands in the swamp where game often concentrates.

The Miombo woodland, which is dissected by the rivers, create excellent refuge for  sable, hartebeest, buffalo, topi and other game seen in the woodland. Crocodile and hippo are found in the Gombe River to the south.

Facts

Moyowosi, Kigosi and Ugala game reserves form a vast and complex reverine floodplain wetland in the basin of the Malagalasi River. The basin has five main rivers, the Malagalasi, Moyowosi, Kigosi, Gombe and Ugala which drain an area of 9.2 million hectares (about 30% of the Lake Tanganyika catchments system).