Data Zone
Country/territory: Madagascar
IBA criteria met: A1, A2, A3 (1999)
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Area: 110,261 hectares (1,102.61 km2)
Site description (2001 baseline)
The site is located about 70 km north-east of Besalampy. The relief is low and soils are sandy. Habitats include forest, lakes and mangrove. The forest area is composed of dense, dry deciduous forest with a high, closed canopy, dominated by Dalbergia and bordered, in the east, by savanna. The savanna is wooded with palms Bismarckia, screw-pine Pandanus, Albizia and tamarind Tamarindus. Lake-margin vegetation includes water-lilies (Nymphaeaceae), legumes (Leguminosae), sedges (Cyperaceae), screw-pines (Pandanaceae) and grasses (Gramineae). The mangrove is dominated by trees of Rhizophora, Avicennia, Sonneratia and Ceriops.
Key biodiversity
See Box and Tables 2 and 3 for key species. Seventy-eight species are known from the site, of which 27 are endemic to Madagascar. The avifauna is a mixture of forest birds and waterbirds.
Non-bird biodiversity: Lemur: Hapalemur griseus occidentalis (VU). Reptile: Boa madagascariensis (VU).
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Cap Saint André forest and wetlands (Madagascar). Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/cap-saint-andré-forest-and-wetlands-iba-madagascar on 23/12/2024.