Australia holds the world's last great savanna http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSSYD27009120070814?sp=true
Tue Aug 14, 2007
By Rob Taylor
CANBERRA (Reuters) - Northern Australia contains the world's largest remaining savannas and is one of the last great pristine wilderness zones, covering an area larger than western Europe, Australian researchers said on Tuesday.
The country's tropics, stretching 2,000 kilometers (1,250 miles) across the continent, accounted for more than a quarter of the world's remaining savanna after the decline of grasslands that once spread over South America, Africa and Asia, they said. http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSSYD27009120070814?sp=true