In Madagascar, several groups and companies are starting to grow trees, and are placing tree planting at the heart of their business models. Bôndy is one of them.

Madagascar has a documented 2,900 endemic species of trees, but a new report shows that almost two-thirds of them are in danger of disappearing. Of the 3,118 species covered, more than 90% had ...

Scientists get a unique view of Earth's most biodiverse ecosystem from 400 square metres of mesh high up in the rainforest canopy ...

Rosewood is a dense tree, and in order for it to be brought downstream to market, large swaths of more buoyant riverbed trees are chopped down and thatched together to make rafts for the valuable ...

Baobabs are sometimes called the "tree of life" with their thick trunks, crown of branches and flowers that only open at twilight. But theories about their geographic origin was divided among ...

MEET Malaindrano, a giant baobab tree hollowed out to store water. It grows in Ampotaka, a village in the Mahafaly plateau region of Madagascar, where there are 300 baobabs for every 475 people.

According to Zoo Knoxville, breeding Madagascar tree boas is a delicate process, and there are fewer than 40 Madagascar tree boas in zoos accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA).

July 2 (UPI) --Madagascar's largest tree species are under threat. So are the island nation's iconic primates, its lemurs. Healthy forests are essential to Madagascar's lemurs, and new research ...

Scientists have finally figured out the horned crocodile's proper place on the tree of life, thanks to ancient DNA extracted from fossils housed at the American Museum of Natural History.