Black River Gorges National Park was founded in 1995 and protects 6.574 ha of primary forest – the last remnants of a former ecological paradise. The area stretches between 300 m and more than 800 m altitude, and it´s mainly covered by quite dense rainforest. It rains a lot up there; the mountains and the […]
Schlagwort: conservation
Blue Bay Marine Park
South of Mahébourg, shallow Blue Bay is the ideal place for snorkelling because of crystal clear water with a maximum depth of five metres, colourful corals and an abundance of fish. In 1997, it´s been declared a National Park, and in 2008 Blue Bay Marine Park was declared a Ramsar wetland of international importance. It […]
Île aux Aigrettes
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 […]
Curepipe & The death of a tree – Curepipe & Der Tod eines Baumes
Despite around 84.000 inhabitants, Curepipe doesn´t feel like a town – nor a city, village or any other form of settlement. It´s a dormitory town, a getaway from the Port Louis heat and humidity for the white elite, mainly. Curepipe is the highest of the cities in the islands centre. Its name is said to […]
Mauritius – Island of the dead birds – Die Insel der toten Vögel
Dream island, paradise, pearl of the Indian Ocean – Mauritius has many exuberant names when you read the travel-agency ads. White sandy beaches, a turquoise sea, reefs, corals and magnificent islets with even more white sandy beaches, palm trees, and in one case a full-scale pro golf course designed by former German champion Bernhard Langer, […]
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 […]
Domaine de la Cascade
Over the course of the last 20 years, 136 hectares of land have been protected nine kilometres west of Tolagnaro at the Domaine de la Cascade. In the vicinity of the last lowland primary forest of the great south, the goal at the Domaine is to protect the natural environment, enhance the area through reforestation […]
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 […]
Nsumbu National Park
At the extreme northeastern end of Zambia, amazing Nsumbu (or Sumbu) National Park stretches from the shores of Lake Tanganyika deep into the forested hinterland. With over 2.000 square kilometers Nsumbu belongs to the medium size Parks in Zambia. In the 70s it was said to be one of the best in the country besides […]
