Schlagwort: Artenschutz

Berenty

In 1936, famous Berenty reserve around 90 kilometres west of Tolagnaro has been founded by Henry and Alain de Heaulme, who had received the license to exploit 6.000 ha of land along Mandrare river to clear the forest and plant sisal. It was agreed to employ the locals which made the communities less vulnerable to […]

Parc National d’Andohahela

This prime National Park alongside RN13 west of Tolagnaro is divided into three separate sectors covering 76.140 ha in total between 120 und 1.972 m altitude. The UNESCO world heritage site protects lowland rainforest as well as dry spiny forest and the extraordinary transitional forest in between the two. Andohahela is most famous for being […]

Nahampoana Reserve

Situated only a few kilometres north of Tolagnaro, Nahampoana Reserve protects a small patch of rainforest as well as some bamboo forest and mangroves along an overgrown channel crossing the reserve. Originally, it had been founded as a botanical garden around 1900, but later it was used for forestry before it became a reserve after […]

ZIWA Rhino Sanctuary

The southern white rhino is highly endangered, but the northern white rhino is already extinct in wilderness. In general, there is not even one of those impressive animals left in its original habitat in Uganda. Astonishingly, they haven´t given up the fight. The northern white rhino shall be replaced by southern white rhinos. The female […]

Andasibe

Because of its proximity to Tana and the good accessibility near the Route National to Toamasina (Tamatave), Andasibe National Park is the most visited in Madagascar. It is home to the famous Indris, the Eastern lesser bamboo lemur and other lemurs like the diadem sifakas that got translocated from nearby Mantadia National Park as well […]