Mount Mabu is a mountain in northern Mozambique, famous for its old-growth rain forest. Mount Mabu is approximately 1,700 metres (5,600 feet) high and the forest covers about 7,000 hectares (27 square miles), or roughly 17,000 acres. While well-known locally, the Mount Mabu forest and its extremely diverse flora and fauna were virtually unknown to science until 2005,[1] when the location was finally visited by a team of researchers from the Mulanje Mountain Conservation Trust (MMCT), along with several ornithologists,[2] and, in 2008, by scientists from Kew Royal Botanic Gardens. The scientific expeditions were only made possible by finding the mountain's location on Google Earth's satellite-view, looking for potentially unknown wildlife hotspots in Africa.[3][4] Thus, Mount Mabu is frequently referred to as the "Google Forest".[5][3][6] It forms part of a proposed ecoregion, to be called the "Southeast Africa Montane Archipelago" (SEAMA).[7]