Mahavavy-Kinkony

The Mahavavy-Kinkony Reserve is a protected area consisting principally of dry deciduous forest and wetlands in the western part of Madagascar.

[2] The Mahavavy-Kinkony Complex IBA, a 300,000-ha landscape including coastal and freshwater wetlands and forests (mangrove and dryland) in Madagascar, including Lake Kinkony Ramsar site and the Mahavavy River Delta, is important to local people for fishing, hunting and agriculture and is home to a large number of threatened wildlife species.

Lake Kinkony was declared a hunting reserve (réserve de chasse) on 13 January 1972 by Order No.

0126-SEHAEF/DIR/FOR, with an area of 15,000 ha covering the eastern and southeastern portions of the lake.

These sites were incorporated into the Mahavavy-Kinkony harmonious protected landscape (paysage harmonieux protégé) on 21 April 2015 by Decree No.