Haroni Forest Reserve

This remote region, lying right on the Zimbabwe/Mozambique border is well known to many visitors to Zimbabwe hoping to find rare and unusual species, and at one stage was one of the most exciting destinations in Zimbabwe. Unfortunately, in the last few years, most of the forest has been chopped out and planted under bananas despite attempts by local NGO's and the Department of National Parks & Wildlife Management to save the designated reserves.

Almost nothing remains of the Haroni Reserve as most of it is now under bananas and much of the stream-bank is also under cultivation. There is still a very small patch of riverine vegetation at the junction of the Haroni and Rusitu Rivers, and the forest across the Haroni river remains relatively undisturbed.