Ankafobe Forest is a complex of several small and degraded forest fragments located in valleys on the Tampoketsa (high plateau savanna) of Ankafobe in central Madagascar.
It contains much of the remaining population of one of Madagascar's most threatened trees: Schizolaena Tampoketsana.
One of the forest fragments is immediately adjacent to RN4, linking Tana and Mahajanga (some 30 km northwest of Ankafobe, near PK131).
There is a simple chalet with educational signs and seats, and also a 1 km trail, passing through savanna, valley-bottom marsh and forest, with labelled trees.
Although the forest here is small it is of general interest as a living remnant of the type of forest that presumably covered much of the hauts plateaux.
The site supports much else of interest - including three lemur species - for the road-weary tourist needing a short break from the journey between Tana and Mahajanga.
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