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 ...

We then compared deforestation at Bemainty to this counterfactual. We found that mining at Bemainty did not cause more deforestation than we estimate would have happened anyway from other causes.

Mr. Razafimpahanana says that while there was “euphoria” after Madagascar signed the global pledge to halt deforestation at COP in 2021, there has been little follow-through by the country’s ...

The Menabe Antimena Protected Area in midwestern Madagascar is badly scarred by deforestation; farmers from the surrounding communities have encroached on this unique dry forest ecosystem in ...

Geography KS3/GCSE. Africa - Conservation in Madagascar. UK teenagers investigate the causes of deforestation threatening the habitat of the lemur.

Madagascar is famous for its exceptional biodiversity, with many of its plants and animals found nowhere else. However, it is also one of the world's lowest-income nations and this has put the ...

Madagascar received $8.8 million for carbon credits from reducing 1.76 million tons of carbon emissions in 2020, becoming the third country in Africa (after Mozambique and Ghana) to be paid by the ...

A filmmaker has told FRANCE 24 about the problems faced by the people of Madagascar as they try to survive, but also care for the environment. Sira Thierij has made a film that shows why people ...

Substantial efforts have been made to uproot deforestation in Southwestern Madagascar, where 99% of people use wood or charcoal to cook their meals. For Earth Hour 2014, WWF Madagascar subsidized the ...

Madagascar's mining rush has caused no more deforestation than farming, study finds. by Katie Devenish, The Conversation ...

If tens of thousands of miners turned up in the middle of a protected rainforest to mine for sapphires, you might expect that to cause lots of deforestation and harm local wildlife.Mining has a very ...

In Madagascar this is called tavy and involves clearing and burning a patch of forest on a slope, cultivating rice and other crops for a few years, and then leaving it fallow. Perkins , Author ...