Berenty Reserve is a small private reserve of gallery forest along the

Mandrare River ''Mandrare '' is a river in the region of Anosy in southern Madagascar. It flows into the Indian Ocean near Amboasary Sud. It becomes dry in certain months of the year. See also *List of rivers of Madagascar This is a list of streams a ...

, set in the semi-arid spiny forest ecoregion of the far south of

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. For more than three decades the late primatologist

Alison Jolly Alison Jolly (May 9, 1937 – February 6, 2014) was a primatologist, known for her studies of lemur biology. She wrote several books for both popular and scientific audiences and conducted extensive fieldwork on Lemurs in Madagascar, primari ...

(who started the research at Berenty), other researchers and students have visited Berenty to conduct fieldwork on

lemur Lemurs ( ) (from Latin ''lemures'' – ghosts or spirits) are wet-nosed primates of the superfamily Lemuroidea (), divided into 8 families and consisting of 15 genera and around 100 existing species. They are endemic to the island of Madagas ...

s. The reserve is also a favourite for visitors who want to see some of Madagascar's endemic bird species, which include owls and

coua Couas are large, mostly terrestrial birds of the cuckoo family, endemic to the island of Madagascar. Couas are reminiscent of African turacos when walking along tree branches, and they likewise feature brightly coloured bare skin around the eye ...

s. The reserve has accommodation in the forest and a set of forest trails to explore. It attracts the most visitors of any Madagascar nature reserve. It is reached after a two-hour drive from Tôlagnaro on the southeast coast.

References

*''Birds of the Indian Ocean Islands'', Sinclair and Langrand, 1998.

External links

Berenty Reserve
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