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Vohimasio (Vohimasina) Sacred Forest
Androy/Anosy area, southern Madagascar
Madagascar
Active (community-managed since 2003)
Single grove
- Location
- Androy/Anosy area, southern Madagascar
- Coordinates
- ~24.7°S 46.2°E
- Elevation
- Spiny/dry forest
- Size
- 30,170 ha
- Age / Founded
- Ancient (ancestral)
- Status
- Active (community-managed since 2003)
- Deity & Religion
- Ancestral spirits; Tandroy/Mahafaly traditional religion (fady)
- Community & Guardians
- Tandroy & Mahafaly communities
- Vernacular name
- Ala faly (Tandroy)
- Record type
- Single grove
Cultural practices & uses
Sacred forest with royal tombs; taboo-protected; medicinal plants
Plant species
Spiny/dry-forest flora; high endemism
Biome & fauna
Spiny Forest ecoregion dry forest
Threats & protection
Local-control transfer (2003); customary fady protection
Source
Tengö et al. 'Taboos and ecosystem services in southern Madagascar' (ICCA Consortium)