Experience a unique ecological experience at Bedo Lake!

Bedo Lake is one of 20 wetlands designated as Ramsar sites in Madagascar today. Located in the Menabe Region, in the western part of the Big Island, the Bedo wetland extends over 2000 hectares of which the lake area alone is 412 hectares. Since 2007, it has been inscribed on the list of wetlands of international importance.

 

The treaty that was signed in 1971 in Iran and implemented in 1975 defines a Ramsar site as a space meeting the criteria established by the contracting parties at the convention. Thus, different types of habitat can be considered as Ramsar sites: marshes, peat bogs, floodplains, rivers and lakes, coastal areas such as salt marshes, mangroves and eelgrass beds, but also coral reefs and other marine areas up to six metres deep at low tide, and man-made wetlands such as sewage treatment ponds and retention lakes. Madagascar's accession to this convention dates from 1998.

 

 

 

This article was featured Prime Magazine February 2018