Southern Congolian forest-savanna mosaic

The Southern Congolian forest-savanna mosaic is a transitional region between the equatorial Congolian forests region to the north and the woodlands and savannas of the Zambezian region to the south. The Central Congolian lowland forests lie to the north, west of the Congo River, and the Northeastern Congolian lowland forests are east of the Congo. In the highlands to the east are the Albertine Rift montane forests. The Central Zambezian miombo woodlands lie to the southeast, and the Angolan miombo woodlands to the southwest. To the west is the Western Congolian forest-savanna mosaic.[3]

Central Africa is familiar with repeated climatic variation that have caused rain forest and savanna expansion and deflation in consideration of the late Pleistocene tectonics defined the Congo Basin.[4] Important climatic shifts have occurred more than 20 times in less than 10 million years.[5] Plants and animals adapt, change, and go extinct with any climatic oscillation. Widespread and immensely resilient organisms that lived through in islands of habitat and accustomed to spatial fluidity were favored.[5] During dry periods, savanna communities breached far into the Congo Basin. The relatively moist riparian forests become detached from one another and compose forest island localities in the savanna matrix.[5][6][7][8]

The ecoregion is home to African bush elephants (Loxodonta africana).

The political situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is unstable; until the country is stable, no important conservation work is likely.[2]

• "Southern Congolian forest-savanna mosaic (World Wildlife Fund)". Terrestrial Ecoregions. World Wildlife Fund.