Makira Natural Park

Makira Natural Park (also referred to as Makira Forest Protected Area and Makira Protected Area) is a nature reserve in Madagascar's Northeastern region. In 2001, the Malagasy Ministry of Environment and Forests, in collaboration with the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), began a program to create a protected area in the Makira forests. Makira received temporary legal protection in December 2005 and was formally created as a natural park on 19 June 2012 by Decree No. 2012-641. The park covers 372,470 hectares (3, 724.7 km2) of humid forest in the regions of Analanjirofo, Sava and Sofia, with a surrounding community-managed belt or protection zone of more than 350,000 hectares. The Makira forests are one of the largest remaining blocks of humid forest in Madagascar's eastern rainforest biome. The park is noted for high levels of endemism, exceptionally rich palm diversity, important populations of threatened lemurs and endemic carnivores, and a long research record in conservation biology, ethnobotany, and rural livelihoods.

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