<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #ffcc99;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Morondava is extremely well known for the Alley of the <strong>Baobab</strong> trees (<em><strong>Adansonia grandidieri</strong></em>). All the travellers pass by             here and the Japanese having also read " the Little Prince " of Mr Antoine of             Saint Exup&eacute;ry, make displacement only for them. They admire them at the sunset and the             sunrise.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="justify"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #ffcc99;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Usually, the Baobab trees like the dry or rocky biotopes, but here, they             are surrounded by rice plantations and marshes, without forgetting the mosquitos,             especially during the sunset and the sunrise. Compared with <em><strong>Adansonia               digitata</strong></em> of Africa and <em><strong>Adansonia gregorii</strong></em> of Australia, the <em><strong>Adansonia grandidieri</strong></em> has a very slim             port and a quite straight trunk without branches. It has the massive and short branches at             its top.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="justify"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #ffcc99;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">It is very difficult to see young Baobab trees. Indeed, the young             growths are very often the meal of the zebus, other local herbivores and people. Without             forgetting the bush fires. The landscape of M&eacute;nab&eacute; has only old specimens of Baobab             trees of a minimum of a hundred years to thousands of years. Then which is the future of             these mastodons if their baby trees are not preserved? If no project of plantations is             undertaken on a large scale, this Malagasy symbol of M&eacute;nab&eacute; will disappear because             nothing is eternal.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="justify"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #ffcc99;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Malagasy symbol is thus in danger!</span></strong></span></span></span></p>
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<p align="justify"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #ffcc99;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">It even arrives that of large Baobab trees are uprooted to grow the             famous mushrooms of Baobab tree. The local people tell that we never see growing the             Baobab trees.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="justify"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #ffcc99;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In addition a German specialist would come each year at the same date to             measure these famous trees. <em><strong>Adansonia grandidieri</strong></em> would             grow from one to three millimeters/year. Some of these gigantic trees whose legend tells             that they would have been planted upside down by the Hyena or the devil in anger, but in             all the cases that do not prevent them from deploying a formidable aura.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="justify"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #ffcc99;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><strong>They are the pillars of M&eacute;nab&eacute;, of Madagascar. They should be             saved.</strong></span></span></span></p>