Manongarivo Reserve is a wildlife reserve in the North-West of Madagascar in the region of Diana.
| Manongarivo Special Reserve | |
|---|---|
IUCN category IV (habitat/species management area)[1] | |
  Location within Madagascar | |
| Location | Northern western Madagascar |
| Nearest city | Ambanja |
| Coordinates | 14°00′S 48°20′E / 14.000°S 48.333°E |
| Area | 643.56 km2 (248.48 sq mi) |
| Established | 1956 |
| Governing body | Parcs Nationaux Madagascar – ANGAP |
Manongarivo is home to both the Sambirano mouse lemur and the Sambirano woolly lemur.[2]
Geography
editFlora and fauna
editThe vegetation is composed of low- and mid-altitude dense humid forest. Low-altitude, dry-transitional forest covers 18% of the reserve, and is dominated by trees of Canarium, Symphonia (and other species of Clusiaceae), Terminalia, Cryptocarya and species of Sapotaceae, with smaller trees such as Phyllarthron in the subcanopy. There are about sixty species of birds in the reserve, thirty of which are endemic to Madagascar.[4]
Some of the species found in the reserve are:
Fauna
editBryophytes
editReferences
edit- 1 2 UNEP-WCMC (2022). Protected Area Profile for Manongarivo from the World Database on Protected Areas. Accessed 28 August 2022.
- ↑ "Manongarivo Special Reserve | Lemurs of Madagascar". www.lemursofmadagascar.com. Archived from the original on 2021-09-23. Retrieved 2020-12-22.
- ↑ "Manongarivo Reserve". Mapcarta. Retrieved 2020-12-22.
- ↑ "BirdLife Data Zone". datazone.birdlife.org. Retrieved 2020-12-22.
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