Marojejy National Park
Marojejy National Park is a national park in the Sava Region of northeastern Madagascar. It covers 55,500 ha and is centered on the MarojeJy Massif, a mountain chain that rises to an elevation of 2,132 m. At least 118 species of bird, 148 species of reptile and amphibian, and 11 species of lemur are known to occur within the park. Despite its rugged terrain, poaching and selective logging are still persistent problems, particularly since the start of the 2009 political crisis.
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Marojejy National Park is a national park in the Sava Region of northeastern Madagascar. It covers 55,500 ha and is centered on the MarojeJy Massif, a mountain chain that rises to an elevation of 2,132 m. Access to the area around the massif was restricted to research scientists when the site was set aside as a strict nature reserve in 1952. It became part of the World Heritage Site known as the Rainforests of the Atsinanana in 2007. At least 118 species of bird, 148 species of reptile and amphibian, and 11 species of lemur are known to occur within the park. Despite its rugged terrain, poaching and selective logging are still persistent problems, particularly since the start of the 2009 political crisis in Madagascar. Mining, slash-and-burn agriculture, and wood collection also pose threats to the park and its wildlife. One path leads from the entrance of the park to the summit. There are three camps along the route: Camp Mantella at 450 m in elevation in lowland rainforest, Camp MarojEjia at 775 m at the transition between lowland and montane rain forest, and Camp Simpona at 1,250 m in the middle of the montaneRainforest. The helmet vanga is considered the iconic bird species of the Park. The park was originally established as a transition zone between the eastern rainforests and the central highlands. It is now recognized as having its own unique features, with some studies from the early 1970s through the early 1990s surveyed the ecosystems and inventoried the flora and fauna of the mountain.
The boundaries of Marojesi National Park were originally established by the Government of Madagascar to protect the biodiversity of the area. In 2007, Marojezi was added to the World Danger list of the Rain Forests of The Atsinsanana by UNESCO. The national park was converted into a park in 1998 and is now open to visitors and is one of the richest biodiversity ecosystems on the island. It was originally seen as a Transition zone between. the eastern and western rain forests, but it has since become a unique biodiversity hotspot. It has a wide range of habitats that transition quickly with changes in altitude. The eastern side of the mountains receives more rain than the western side, and the park has the only remaining undisturbed mountain scrub in the country. The massif is not geologically described until after the French botanist Jean-Henri Humbert from the National Museum of Natural History in Paris explored the mountains in 1948. He claimed it was the most impressive range in all of Madagascar because of its size, floral diversity, and pristine natural state. After several expeditions, he published the book “A Marvel of Nature” in 1955. Marojosi was not surveyed until 1937 when L. -J. Arragon of the Service Géographique de Madagascar ascended Marojojy Est.
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