Madagascar

Western Dry Forests

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Derek Schuurman Product Manager Madagascar and Alternative Africa

"Now, more than ever, it is evident that carefully managed tourism provides vital revenue needed to support conservation initiatives under way in Madagascar. Thanks to employment opportunities created in areas of biological significance, permanently resident communities are able to appreciate that it can be better having wildlife roaming free, than in cooking pots over fires fuelled from their forest homes."

Western Dry Forests Holidays

Madagascar’s deciduous dry forests are much lighter than the rainforests you'll see in the eastern half of the country. The western deciduous forests are also the island’s most fragmented and desperately endangered forest type. They are home to a unique assemblage of often highly localised endemic animals and plants. This includes most of Madagascar's six endemic species of Baobab tree. Iconic lemurs of the western region, include the acrobatic Coquerel’s sifaka and our tiniest relative, the Madame Berthe’s mouse lemur which now is Endangered.

See:

Anjajavy Forest Reserve
Ankarafantsika
Ankarana
Kirindy Forest

Locations within Western Dry Forests

Andrafiamena Andavakoera

A new stop on the northern circuit, this 74,600ha area encompasses transition forest and deciduous dry forest. There are caves and limestone formations. Note that passages in the labyrinth are very narrow in places, so are suited for slim individuals only.With the establishment of Fanamby's...

Anjajavy Forest Reserve

This unofficially protected parcel of tropical dry deciduous forest has much the same wildlife as Ankarafantsika, with the addition of innumerable baobabs of three species, and even groves of cycads at Moromba Bay. By day, visitors can expect to see Coquerel’s sifaka and Common brown lemurs,...

Ankarafantsika National Park

Getting there:Ankarafantsika National Park is 120km south-east of the west coast port Mahajanga. Getting there is easily achieved by means of a 2 hours drive along a good, tarmac road. Wildlife:Its approximately 10,000 hectares of western dry deciduous forest, protects much the same wildlife...

Ankarana National Park

Ankarana National Park (formerly Special Reserve) presents a fantastic landscape, with its expanses of razor-sharp pinnacles (tsingy). The 35km-long limestone massif is pierced by caves and canyons, and, between sheer cliffs, sunken moist deciduous forests harbour rare wildlife. The reserve...

Belo Sur Mer

This remote, sleepy outpost is a Veso settlement perhaps best known as the site where impressive dhows/ schooners are built, along designs taught to certain families centuries back by European pirates. But Belo Sur Mer is also the access point to the wonderful Kirindy Mite National Park, where...

Kirindy Forest

The Menabe Antimena Protected Area is famed for its gigantic Grandidier’s baobabs – as well as two of Madagascar’s other endemic baobab species, (Adansonia rubrostipa and the large southern species A. za). Within the Protected Area, the fascinating Kirindy Forest, comprises 10,000...

Tsingy de Bemaraha National Park

One of Madagascar's largest national parks, remote Tsingy de Bemaraha is also a World Heritage Site. It is one of western Madagascar's spectacular limestone karst plateaux topped with fields of razor-sharp, friable pinnacles or 'tsingy'.