page_title: Monvert Nature Park
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Monvert Nature Park / History
caption_attribution_description: English: MonVert Nature Walk - Steps up to Lookout Tower
context_page_description: Monvert Nature Park is a nature walk, arboretum, botanical gardens and rehabilitated indigenous forest, situated in Forest Side, Curepipe, Mauritius.
context_section_description: The area of Monvert was named after Chevallier Antoine de Monvert, and was previously a dense indigenous forest (with "Bois de Natte", "Bois Manioc" and "Manglier vert" being the most commons tree species). The entire region was taken for logging in the early 1900s, but while much of the surrounding land was re-planted with fast-growing invasive trees such as eucalyptus from Australia, a portion was left, that naturally re-grew some indigenous Mauritian plants.
  This area was set aside for conservation because of the unusually high biodiversity involving critically endangered species, and the nature park was set up between 2001 and 2006. As state land it is managed by the Mauritian National Forestry Service.
caption: Old Monvert look-out tower
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