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: tortoise
Saiadi botanical garden
North of Tolagnaro and just across the road from Nahampoana, Saiadi botanical garden is its counterpart with an emphasis on the botanical side, although there are also tame ring-tailed lemurs as well as brown lemurs, chameleons and many birds. The neatly laid-out park is protected since 1938, but in 2025 we found it quite deserted, […]
Village des Tortues & Arboretum Reniala
The fishing village Ifaty-Mangily north of Toliara (Tuléar) at Madagascar’s south-western coast is a remote and uninspiring place – at first sight. It is linked to Toliara by a rough and sandy dirt road, which takes you a good hour of a bone crushing drive in a minibus or a Camion brousse. But if you […]
