According to the elders in the village located in the heart of this protected area, it was formerly called Ankorondranala, which means « gathering » or « forest of Renala » ( baobabs). Baobabs Alley was the name adopted after the construction of the National Road serving Belo on Tsiribihina.

In the fifties, this area was covered with a dense dry forest. The village people used to collect baobab seeds for the oil producing plants of Morondava.

The sugar plant SIRANALA (at present called SUCOMA) established itself in the area in 1972; it developed belts of sugar plantations and had to do a lot of clearing and cut a lot of baobab trees so as to make room for the plantations. Sugar production actually started in 1978 after completion of the development works on the territory.

When the baobab oil producers ceased their activity, the village communities residing in the present protected area started to develop land for crops and rice fields in 1985. As a consequence, water in the rice fields covered a major part of the baobab trees. Moreover, rainfall became more and more scarce and the villagers started to use the wastewater from SUCOMA to irrigate their rice fields in 1986.

This situation put the baobab trees in jeopardy as they were permanently flooded and the putrid smell of the wastewater flowing into the area was denounced in the media in 2004. It was then formally notified by the Ministry of Environment, Water and Forests that discharging SUCOMA wastewater into the Baobabs Alley was strictly prohibited. This resulted in the setting up of the Baobab Technical Unit, an initiative of the Region Menabe and the local population.

In order to support the projects aiming at the conservation of baobabs, the Association Fanamby hand in hand with the Baobab Technical Unit managed to put the Baobabs Alley under temporary protection.
Hence the Baobabs Alley protected area, which was inaugurated on July 19, 2007 during the Festival/Marathon JAMA 2007.