Arboretum d'Antsokay

[4][5] There is an interpretation centre, a small museum (with rocks, fossils and an Aepyornis egg), a display of musical instruments and local crafts, a shop, a restaurant, as well as accommodation for visitors at Auberge de la Table.

[6] Arboretum d'Antsokay is in the middle of an area of natural spiny forest, a desert habitat unique to Madagascar, and measures 400,000 square metres (4,300,000 sq ft).

[7] It is 3 km (1.9 mi) from the western shore of Madagascar and the Mozambique Channel and close to a small mountain called La Table.

[11] The Arboretum has played a role in conservation efforts to preserve the radiated tortoise, a very endangered species in the southern deserts.

[15] According to Botanic Gardens Conservation International "On a surface of 40 hectares, surrounded by vegetal hedges, the project initiator exerted himself to have the most threatened plants species, reproduced and multiplied either by seeding,cutting or transplantation process in order to preserve most of them from constant deforestation, bush fire and looters.