Plantation forest
This habitat type is dominated by plantations of Juniperus
procera with intermixed grass and shrub species in understory
vegetation. In this habitat type grass species consumed by the galdas
such as Andropogone abyssinicus and Sporobolus pyramidalisare found sparsely. Its altitude ranges from 2902 to 2969 m asl. The
habitat is locally called “Chichet”. In this habitat, human
disturbance is intense due to increased availability of logging trees
such as Juniperus procera and availability of the mineral Opal
(Rondeau et al. 2010). There was an illegal cutting of trees such asJuniperus procera by the local communities for household
consumption and for sell in the local market. The local community also
constantly destructs the rocky cliff refugees of the gelada in search of
the mineral Opal in the rock cracks (DWANRDO, 2016).