National Parks
5% of all known animal and plant species can only be found here in the National Parks of Madagascar. The trademark of the island is undoubtedly the lemurs, but calm, there are many stranger and unique creatures: the mysterious lemur-eating fossa (a small feline predator), the chameleons with the most spectacular colors, the strangest insects like the bizarre giraffe-necked weevils, hundreds of types of frogs, turtles with elegant stripes.
Madagascar in Numbers
43 Protected Areas, 26.000 sq km
2 Strict Nature Reserves
27 National Parks, 7 UNESCO sites, 5 Ramsar Sites
14 Special Reserves, 4 Biosphere Reserves
About 14.000 species of plants
4220 species of trees, 95% found nowhere else
1000 species of orchids
7 species of baobabs trees, 6 endemic to Madagascar
108 known species of lemur, all endemic to Madagascar
4600 species of butterflies
292 species of birds, 109 endemic
95 species of chameleons (2/3 of the world’s known species)
Over 100 non-venomous snakes
14 species of turtles