The Tsingy de Bemaraha National Park is a protected UNESCO world
heritage site, but this park doesn’t need any tollbooths, rangers or
even a tall, spiked fence. Why? Because it’s literally nothing but
spiked fence. Tsingy is a 250-square-mile tiger trap made up of massive
limestone obelisks riddled with jagged spears.
The unusual geomorphology of the Tsingy de Bemaraha World Heritage Site,
which encompasses both the National Park and the adjacent Strict Nature
Reserve, means that the Site is home to an exceptionally large number
of endemic species of plants and animals that are found only within
extremely small niches within the tsingys. For example, the summit,
slope, and base of a tsingy’s limestone needle form different ecosystems
with different species clinging to their exceptionally steep slopes.
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