Manongarivo Special Reserve

Wildlife reserve in Madagascar

14°00′S 48°20′E / 14.000°S 48.333°E / -14.000; 48.333Area643.56 km² (248.48 sq mi)Established1956Governing bodyParcs Nationaux Madagascar – ANGAP

Manongarivo Reserve is a wildlife reserve in the North-West of Madagascar in the region of Diana.

Manongarivo is home to both the Sambirano mouse lemur and the Sambirano woolly lemur.^[2]

Geography

The reserve has a surface of 64,356 ha^[1] and is situated at 35 km from Ambanja. It has an elevation of 1013 metres.^[3]

Flora and fauna

The 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 Guttiferae), Terminalia, Ravensara 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

Eulemur macaco
Microcebus sambiranensis
Philepitta castanea
Ploceus sakalava

Flora

Bazzania descrescens
Diplasiolejeunea cobrensis
Drepanolejeunea geisslerae
Microlejeunae fissistipula
Lopholejeunea leioptera
Plagiochila fracta
Scistochila piligera
Leucobryum parvulum
Leucobryum sanctae-mariae
Ochrobryum sakalavu
Syrrhopodon cuneifolius

References

^ ^a ^b UNEP-WCMC (2022). Protected Area Profile for Manongarivo from the World Database on Protected Areas. Accessed 28 August 2022. [1]
^ "Manongarivo Special Reserve | Lemurs of Madagascar". www.lemursofmadagascar.com. Retrieved 2020-12-22.
^ "Manongarivo Reserve". Mapcarta. Retrieved 2020-12-22.
^ "BirdLife Data Zone". datazone.birdlife.org. Retrieved 2020-12-22.