Fritz Mueller Photography

…The jungle on Nosy Mangabe is tangled with lianas and buttress roots, travellers palm, fruit trees and ebony. The island was settled by the Dutch around 1600, and at various times was home to slaves, pirates and Malagasy tribes. The small island's frog diversity is impressive-on our first afternoon hike we spotted no less than eight species. The strange aye-aye also resides here, introduced to the protected island in 1966 as a conservation measure.