Tsaratanana Reserve
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| Location | Diana Region, Madagascar |
| Coordinates | 13°57′47″S 48°50′56″E / 13.963°S 48.849°E[2] |
| Area | 486.22 km2 (187.73 sq mi) |
| Designated | 31 December 1927 |
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Tsaratanana Reserve is a nature reserve of Madagascar.[3] The park is located at a high altitude and is closed to the public.[3] The reserve provides a significant amount of water to the area, and many rivers exist in the area, such as the Bemarivo River, Sambirano River and the Ramena or Mahavavy River.[3] The reserve also has two waterfalls and thermal baths.[3]
It includes Maromokotro peak which is the highest mountain of Madagascar at 2,876 m (9,436 ft)[4]
The forests in the park are threatened with illegal logging due to obtaining areas for illegal cultivation of marijuana, vanilla and rice.
Geography
[edit]It is located 57 km (35 mi) north of Bealanana in the Diana Region.
The park covers an area of 48,622 ha.[5]
Flora and fauna
[edit]Most of the park is in the Madagascar subhumid forests ecoregion. Some high-elevation areas are in the Madagascar ericoid thickets ecoregion.[6]
The reserve is home to animal species that cannot be found anywhere else in the world, including at least four species of endangered frogs: Rhombophryne guentherpetersi, Rhombophryne ornata, Rhombophryne tany, and Cophyla alticola.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ UNEP-WCMC (2022). Protected Area Profile for Tsaratanana from the World Database on Protected Areas. Accessed 28 August 2022. [1]
- ^ "Tsaratanana Strict Nature Reserve". protectedplanet.net.
- ^ a b c d Madagascar National Parks - Tsaratanana Archived 2015-04-21 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ wildmadagascar.org - Tsaratanana
- ^ "The strict reserve of Tsaratanana". www.fapbm.org. Retrieved 2021-02-19.
- ^ Tsaratanana. DOPA Explorer. Accessed 28 August 2022.
- ^ "A Madagascar forest long protected by its remoteness is now threatened by it". Mongabay Environmental News. 2020-12-21. Retrieved 2021-02-19.
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