More than 100 whales are stranded off Madagascar, as an oil company suspends surveying in the area.
... climate impacts on biodiversity for tropical regions.
Raxworthy has been surveying the diversity of Madagascar's herpetological assemblage since 1985 and discovered the uphill migration almost by ...
... $20 million (13 million Euros) to preserve Madagascar's rich biodiversity, WWF has announced. Nearly 98 percent of Madagascar's land mammals, 92 percent of its reptiles, and 80 percent of its plants ...
African small-scale farmers will benefit from the rehabilitation of agricultural infrastructure, with Ghana, Madagascar and Mali first in line.
... , their favorite food, occurred in 2007 in the Torotorofotsy wetlands of east central Madagascar, which is designated a Ramsar site of international importance under the 1971 Convention on Wetlands.
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Not in my wildest dreams did I anticipate the fossil riches that we would discover on our first expedition to the island of Madagascar, off the southeast coast of Africa, back in 1993.
Up to 500,000 hectares of moist and spiny forests in Madagascar are to be protected or restored in a pioneering project which will include testing ways to measure climate impacts...
... are interested in threats to the local ringtail lemur population in remote southern Madagascar. What they've found is that overgrazing by cattle herds has decimated the supply of soft fruits and ...
... are studying threats posed to the local ringtailed lemur population of a remote region in southern Madagascar. What they've found is that overgrazing by cattle herds has decimated the supply of soft ...
A coup d'etat in Madagascar has prompted looters to invade protected sanctuaries, harvesting trees and threatening critically endangered lemurs and other species, conservationists say.
... land has spurred an effort to prioritize the location of reserves within the landscape."
Madagascar is an island nation in the Indian Ocean that has been completely isolated from other land masses ...
... known amphibian fauna. This study suggests that the number of amphibian species in Madagascar, one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots, has been significantly underestimated. According to the ...
A third species of Palaeopropithecus, an extinct group of large lemurs, has just been uncovered in the northwest of Madagascar by a Franco-Madagascan team.
... opening a loophole for the legal export of illegally cut timber and encouraging further assaults on Madagascar's endangered forests and wildlife, conservation groups active on the island have said...
Conservationists have taken the first step in their mission to save the critically endangered Madagascar pochard.