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8.31% of the ecoregion is in protected areas.[1] including Tsimanampetsotsa National Park, Berenty Reserve, Beza Mahafaly Reserve, and Cap Sainte Marie Special Reserve. Andohahela National Park offers limited protection through its ‘Parcel Three’ section. Elsewhere the spiny forest habitat is under pressure from human exploitation. The main impacting activities are burning for conversion to farming and grazing land, harvesting for charcoal and firewood, and logging for construction.[3] The Arboretum d’Antsokay is a botanical garden near Toliara dedicated to preserving the flora of the spiny forest.[4]
See link: Madagascar spiny forests
Tsingy de Bemaraha National Park
The Tsingys are karstic plateaus in which groundwater has undercut the elevated uplands, and has gouged caverns and fissures into the limestone. In several regions on western Madagascar, centering on the park and adjacent Nature Reserve, the superposition of vertical and horizontal erosion patterns has created dramatic “forests” of limestone needles.[2]
Tsingy is a Malagasy word describing the karst badlands of Madagascar. The word can be translated into English as where one cannot walk barefoot.[3]
See link: Tsingy de Bemaraha National Park