Alien-looking plants, chameleons, lemurs, royal tombs, and an ancient sacred fig tree: Madagascar's Sakoantovo forest is truly extraordinary. A new conservation approach combining traditional ...

Madagascar’s forests are recovering due to social institutions Madagascar’s forests are recovering wildmadagascar.org May 2, 2007 Some of Madagascar’s most biologically rich forests appear ...

TAOLAGNARO, Madagascar – Acting on a tip from a village informant, Fabian met a colleague at the edge of the spiny forest reserve just after nightfall. Together, ...

The Mahafaly and Tandroy communities of southern Madagascar, local authorities, and the Malagasy government have made a commitment to conserve the sacred forests of Sakoantovo (6,163ha) and Vohimasio ...

Tortoise 053 is one of 4,000 subadult radiated tortoises so far liberated into a handful of well-protected forests in the region. And there are ambitious plans afoot to release many more — some ...

But as we learned, the uncanny spiny forests and succulent woodlands of Madagascar, like so much of its land mass, were fast becoming casualties of critically poor farmers looking to make charcoal ...

What we found. Our study investigated how future climate change is likely to affect four of Madagascar’s key forest habitat types. These four forest types are the dry deciduous forests of the ...

The world’s rarest baobab species is Adansonia perrieri, seen here growing in the Ankarana Special Reserve, a protected forest in northern Madagascar.Scientists estimate only around 200 trees ...

Madagascar has been particularly hard hit by deforestation, having lost half its forests over the past 60 years. While Congo-Brazzaville has maintained a low deforestation rate compared to ...

In southern and southwestern Madagascar, there is an incredibly unique eco-region called the Spiny Forest. The vast majority of the plants there are only found on the island, and they're adapted ...

Madagascar’s Mangroves: The Ultimate Giving Trees Locals already use the trees for food, fuel and building materials. Now they’re burning them to make lime clay ...

The spiny forest also has the highest rate of plant endemism in Madagascar: some 95% of the species here occur nowhere else on the planet, many of them on the brink of extinction. A Verreaux’s ...