Guinean Plant and Animal Life

Guinea's coasts support the Oil Palm which provides Guinea with mountains of oil from its fruit, also the beaches support the Mangrove tree which is one of the only trees that can survive in salt water. Why is this important? The best way to stop a tsunami or hurricane is to make it run out of land, the mangrove tree keeps the beach land in its place when a natural disaster occurs. So, you could say that these trees are natural anti-hurricane/tsunami systems. Guinea has a special tree that grows in its ravine-surrounded rivers, and also some that grow in the savanna-grasslands. Of the things that grow in the savanna, the plants that I found most interesting were the different species of grass which would grow from 5-10 feet tall, depending on the species. Farther inland there are mostly just deciduous trees that are mostly worthless, but some contain oil and other precious liquids. Despite it's richness in uranium and gold, bauxite and many other priceless materials like diamonds, Guinea doesn't have too many unique African animals. Mostly you'd see baboons and hyenas, antelope and sometimes a wild boar or a leopard. Also, being a coastal nation with once-were-hills-islands, Guinea has relatively shallow water that you can see hippos and manatees in, sometimes even in rivers all over Guinea. Also there is a large variety of different harmless snakes and fish that swim around in the lakes, rivers, and Ocean. Now to end this section on a menacing topic; you may get eaten by crocodiles in the rivers or by mambas, pythons, vipers, and cobras but other than that I would like to live there someday.