Île aux Aigrettes is an island east of Mahébourg. It is protected as Île aux Aigrettes Nature Reserve since 1965, and since 1985 they´re getting rid of all the invasive species of plants, but also rats, cats and what else the apes had brought. Over the decades and through intense reforestation of endemic plants, most […]
Schlagwort: bird
At Lilayi – Im Lilayi
South of Lusaka, Lilayi Lodge is set in the middle of the eponymous, privately managed and 650-hectare large Game Reserve with more than 25 different species of mammals as well as more than 300 species of birds. Part of the reserve has been the Lilayi Elephant Orphanage, where young elephant orphans are prepared to enter […]
Vohemar (Iharana)
Vohemar, also referred to as Iharana, is the northernmost town in Madagascar’s north-eastern SAVA region. It is located right at the Indian ocean and vast Iharana bay which is subjected to the tides. Historically, Vohemar seems to be one of Madagascar´s oldest settlements, if not the oldest, where Swahili merchants installed a port for trading […]