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Andasibe-Mantadia National Park

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The aim was to take lemurs from threatened areas where habitat loss means the incumbent population is unsustainable, and relocate them to the relative safety of the Analamazaotra Special Reserve. The program followed the IUCN re-introduction/translocation guidelines, with family group monitoring before and after translocation.
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To address the disappearing habitat threat, reserves have been created in the vicinity of Andasibe-Mantadia that balance resource extraction with environmental protection, and attempt to create economic and environmentally preferable alternatives to replacing native forests with eucalyptus and pine.
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In 2006, the Madagascar Biodiversity Partnership and Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo & Aquarium, in collaboration with Madagascar National Parks and Eaux et Fôret initiated the Analamazaotra Re-introduction/Translocation (ART) project to reintroduce two endangered species of lemur back into the park.
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after the nearby village, was once part of the larger Mantadia National Park which also included Maromizaha Classified Forest to the southeast and Anosibe an’ala to the south. However logging and deforestation for farming has resulted in these parks now being isolated.
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The project has so far been very successful, and visitors to this popular reserve have been lucky enough to see two generations of babies born at the park. The ART project also helps the local community by education and provides two local guides.
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into the park. The project's multi-disciplinary team tracked the reintroduced groups using radio collars, and collected fecal samples to evaluate biomedical, genetic, habitat, nutritional and reproductive characteristics of the lemurs.
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The main threat to this park comes from the disappearance of adjoining habitat outside the park. This disappearance has been caused primarily by logging and replacement of rain-forest with commercial
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This is one of the easiest parks in Madagascar to visit from the capital city, Antananarivo, with a 3-hour drive east on a paved road,
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cultivation for rice agriculture, which is exacerbated by the extremely
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By 2014, the ART project had reintroduced three groups comprising 26
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The national park was nominated in 2007 to become part of the
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and Chinese pine forests, and to a lesser extent by
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Index

IUCN category
national park
Map showing the location of Andasibe-Mantadia National Park
Moramanga
Andasibe
18°49′36″S 48°26′52″E / 18.82667°S 48.44778°E / -18.82667; 48.44778
Madagascar National Parks Association
protected area
primary growth forest
Alaotra-Mangoro
Madagascar
rainforest
habitat
species
biodiversity
endemic
rare species
endangered species
Analamazoatra Reserve
indri
World Heritage Site
Rainforests of the Atsinanana
Route Nationale 2 (RN 2)
Analamazaotra (or Périnet) Special Reserve
Australian eucalyptus
slash-and-burn
high population growth rate

diademed sifaka
black-and-white ruffed lemur

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