Fauna and Flora

Madagascar is rich in fauna and flora. There is an amazing diversity of animals and vegetal species on the island of Madagascar. Most of the animal species in Madagascar are endemic and endangered. The most well-known animals are lemurs . The most popular are also reptiles, birds, humpback whales,amphibians, insects, butterflies, fish, and the famous "fossa"( Madagascar’s legendary carnivore)...

Madagascar where Nature rarely untouched surrounds you. The island is well covered with vegetation: rainforests, dry tropical forests or spiny forests, amazing trees such as the baobab tree, the palm tree, the "ravinala"tree and extraordinary flowers such as orchids and periwinkles.

Because of its isolated location in the middle of the Indian Ocean lasting a little more than 100 million years, Madagascar developed a very different fauna and flora from all the fauna and the flora of the whole world. It has a strong rate of endemism as regards vegetations. More than 75% of the plant species which it presents only exists on the island itself. In other words, they exist nowhere else except in the Large island. The distinction of Madagascar was worth its given name as “nature sanctuary or naturalists paradise”. Scientists classified it as country with “mega biodiversity” which simply wants to say that almost all of the plant species existing in Madagascar constitute rare resources which deserve protection and recognition of the planet.

  • Baobabs The most remarkable of the plant species of the large island is the Baobab tree or “Reniala” which literally means “mother of the forest” in Malagasy language.
  • Birds Madagascar is the kingdom of 107 endemic birds species.
  • Flowers The richness of the Malagasy biodiversity is perceptible through all the facets of its flora. All the vegetation family always presents some endemic species in Madagascar. Thus, the flower (...)
  • MTTC Humpback whales One of tourist attractions of the island which attracts many visitors of the whole world is also the meeting with the humpback whales.
  • Lemurs Madagascar is especially known by the existence of its lemurs. Thus lemurs symbolize and represent Madagascar
  • Reptiles & Amphibians 98% of reptiles are endemic to Madagascar.
  • MTTC Succulent Plants “Succulent plants" are among the plant types that have a very high rate of endemism in Madagascar. These plants grow well in the southern part of the island, a region that can be described as the (...)
  • Tree species Madagascar has different kind of tree species which make the happiness of the visitors.