These rivers should not be confused with the Gombe Stream National Park where the chimpanzees live.

With a total area of almost 92,000 square kilometers, the wetland system is larger than the entire country of Portugal.

The entire region has been declared as a Ramsar site, a wetland of worldwide significance.

[1] The shoebill stork, a rare and slightly ominous bird, as well as the towering and graceful wattled crane have their biggest concentrations in Africa there.

The largest concentrations of Cape clawless otters in Africa can be found in the Moyowosi wetlands.

Lion, leopard, buffalo, crocodile, topi, sitatunga, warthog, baboon, zebra, sable, roan, eland, bushbuck, oribi, common and Bohor reedbuck, hyena, hippo, and Defassa waterbuck are just a few examples of the abundant big game.

The marshes are also the ideal habitat for rare water birds, such as the great snipe, wattled cranes, and shoebills.