Madagascar’s protected area network has expanded rapidly in the past decade, and today spans 7 million hectares (17 million acres). Yet 307 endemic tree species like L. ambondrombeensis lie ...

Participants at a tree-planting event in Ankazobe district, Madagascar, on Jan. 19, 2020. The planting marked the launch of a major government tree-planting campaign.

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 ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) - Zoo Knoxville announced on Friday that seven Madagascar tree boas were born. The rare snakes, which were born on Wednesday, were the first successful breeding of the ...

These inflatable surfaces are lowered by a blimp and placed right on top of the trees, providing scientists with a working surface of 400 square metres of mesh strung between PVC hoops. "We just ...

More than 30 Canarium tree species are found on Madagascar, and the largest of these have seeds that resemble large olives and are too big for Madagascar's existing lemurs to eat.

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 ...