The ramifications of human activity on the island of Madagascar will affect the island far longer than previously realized, scientists say. It could take millions of years for the biodiversity on ...

Of the 109 different lemur species in Madagascar, nearly a third of them are perilously close to disappearing. Of baobab trees, the Adansonia perrieri species is at high risk for extinction.

Not just animal life, plant life too: fat baobabs, spine-covered trees reaching skywards, palm-studded grasslands, orchid-bedecked rainforest… Madagascar’s magic tends to come in small packages. No ...

Why is Madagascar’s wildlife so unique? Their ancestors may have rafted over. It’s long been a mystery how the ancestors of gremlin-like aye-ayes and satanic leaf-tailed geckos got to the island.

But there once was an even bigger bird, which roamed Madagascar before dying out roughly 1,000 years ago: the elephant bird. Scientists don't know much about these massive birds.

A species of leaf chameleon new to science, measuring less than half the length of a human forefinger, has been discovered in a tiny patch of Madagascar’s highly threatened coastal rainforests ...

People have tried to stop bush fires in Madagascar for 120 years since then, but to no avail, he said. “My research dates back 20 years, but every time I come back, things haven’t changed much ...

French colonists first brought vanilla to Madagascar’s neighbouring island of Réunion in the early 19th Century. It grows as a clinging vine, reaching lengths of up to 300ft (90m).