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.

Manongarivo Special Reserve

Geography

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

Manongarivo Special Reserve

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.

Manongarivo Special Reserve

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

External links

Official site of the Park

Special reserves of Madagascar

Protected areas in Diana Region

Madagascar subhumid forests

Madagascar dry deciduous forests