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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ANTANANARIVO — At the end of April, a team of researchers scouring a scarred area of spiny forest in southwestern Madagascar came across three individuals of a critically endangered chameleon ...

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’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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...