Ecotourism

Irobland is known as African Tibet. Mountain trekking, combined with cultural holidays of Irob indigenous minority has a huge potential for ecotourism. The vegetation of Irobland is unique in the region. It resembles more to that of the Arabian Peninsula mountains than anything around the rest Tigray region. This has to do with the unique attributes of the geological formation of the Great Rift Valley. However, the vegetation is not identified and researched. It is an opportunity open for exploration and research. Irobland is part of the Great Green Wall's northern frontier. Four of the WWF Ecoregions that overlap the Irobland, namely the Ethiopian xeric grasslands and shrublands, Somali Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets, Ethiopian montane forests, and the Ethiopian montane grasslands and woodlands.