Zika Forest

[1] The forest covers an area of about 25 hectares (62 acres) next to the swamps of Waiya Bay, an inlet of Lake Victoria.

Easily accessible and combining several ecosystems, the Zika Forest is well suited to the study of mosquitoes.

[2] The forest has a rich biodiversity in plants and moths, and is home to about 40 species of mosquitoes.

[1] In that same year, the Zika virus was identified from a collected Aedes africanus sample.

[6] No routine mosquito collections were performed for about the next four decades, while human activities encroached on the forest.