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Conservationists call for lasting ban on trade in Malagasy precious timber

Malavika Vyawahare 3 May 2019

That Malagasy forest featured in Netflix’s ‘Our Planet’? It’s vanishing fast

Malavika Vyawahare 26 Apr 2019

The world lost a Belgium-size area of old growth rainforest in 2018

Morgan Erickson-Davis 25 Apr 2019
Ankarana sportive lemur (Lepilemur ankaranensis), an endangered species whose habitat is threatened by rosewood logging. Image by Rhett A. Butler.

Singapore acquits trader in world’s biggest rosewood bust, worth $50m

Edward Carver 19 Apr 2019
Rio Tinto’s QIT Madagascar Minerals mine in southeastern Madagascar. Image courtesy of Google Earth.

Madagascar: Rio Tinto mine breaches sensitive wetland

Edward Carver 9 Apr 2019
A life restoration of Hadropithecus stenognathus, an extinct species of lemur, based on fossil evidence. H. stenognathus is thought to have weighed between 27 and 35 kilograms (60 and 77 pounds), more than three times the size of the largest living species of lemur, the indri (Indri indri). Image by Smokeybjb via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Human population boom led to Madagascar’s megafauna extinction: Study

Malavika Vyawahare 4 Apr 2019

Meet Mini mum, Mini ature, Mini scule: Tiny new frogs from Madagascar

Mongabay.com 28 Mar 2019
Just a few baobab trees remain standing in a part of the Menabe Antimena Protected Area near Kirindy village that was forested a few years ago. Image by Pierre Koval.

Illegal corn farming menaces a Madagascar protected area

Emilie Filou 21 Feb 2019
A view of the Soarano wetland, cleared of forest by illegal gold miners. Image by Daniel Burgas.

Illegal gold mining destroys wetland forest in Madagascar park

Rowan Moore Gerety 19 Feb 2019

Viral video of endangered lemur made people want one as a pet: Study

Mongabay.com 29 Jan 2019

New species of leaf-mimicking lizard could already be victim of pet trade

Shreya Dasgupta 23 Jan 2019
Rainforest at Tampolo on the Masoala Peninsula. The peninsula has been heavily logged for rosewood in the wake of the 2009 coup d’etat that brought Andry Rajaolina to power in Madagascar for the first time. He was elected to the presidency in December and will take office Jan 19. Image by Rhett A. Butler.

Madagascar’s next president to take office, bears suspect eco record

Edward Carver 18 Jan 2019

Coffee in trouble: 60% of wild coffee species threatened with extinction

Shreya Dasgupta 17 Jan 2019
Rainforest in Sarawak, Malaysia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

The biggest rainforest news stories in 2018

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Dec 2018
Baobab trees in Western Madagascar.

Wildlife, ecotourism industry at stake in Madagascar’s election, says scientist

Mongabay.com 18 Dec 2018
Brookesia chameleon in the rainforest of Madagascar's Masoala Peninsula. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Challenging the illegal logging regime in Madagascar (insider)

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Dec 2018
The Mozambique Channel off the west coast of Madagascar. Image by Rod Waddington via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Madagascar auctioning a large swath of virgin waters for oil exploration

Edward Carver 14 Dec 2018
Black lemur on Nosy Komba, Madagascar. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

The second time couldn’t be worse than the first (insider)

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Dec 2018
Google Earth image of the Manambolo River Canyon.

The river of blood (insider)

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Nov 2018

A lucky child: Mongabay’s origin story (insider)

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Nov 2018
A fishing boat in the town of Beheloke in southwestern Madagascar. Image by Rowan Moore Gerety for Mongabay.

Local fishers oppose $2.7 billion deal opening Madagascar to Chinese fishing

Edward Carver 5 Nov 2018

Thousands of radiated tortoises seized from traffickers in Madagascar

John Cannon 31 Oct 2018
A coral reef system along the coast of northern Mozambique, one of nearly 300 coral reefs in the Western Indian Ocean examined by researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society and other organizations in a 10-year study that focused on coral diversity and rates from bleaching events. Photo credit: Emily Darling/WCS.

In Bali and beyond: An urgent focus on coral conservation (commentary)

Cristián Samper 29 Oct 2018
Ankarana sportive lemur (Lepilemur ankaranensis), an endangered species whose habitat is threatened by rosewood logging. Image by Rhett A. Butler.

CITES rejects another Madagascar plan to sell illegal rosewood stockpiles

Edward Carver 24 Oct 2018
A pile of shrimp in Madagascar. Image by Rhett A. Butler.

Top Madagascar shrimp co. moved millions among tax-haven shell companies

Edward Carver, Will Fitzgibbon 11 Oct 2018
Size comparison between the eggs of an elephant bird, ostrich, and chicken. Courtesy of the museum at Berenty.

Humans reached Madagascar 6,000 years earlier than previously thought

Mongabay.com 12 Sep 2018

Madagascar: Where young whale sharks party

Nora Ward 31 Aug 2018
Rosy periwinkle (Catharanthus roseus), the source of vinblastine and vincristine, compounds used to treat Hodgkin's disease

Bandits raid village near Madagascar park, killing conservation worker

Edward Carver 27 Aug 2018

Millipedes might soothe itchy lemurs, research finds

Mongabay.com 13 Aug 2018
Pardalis chameleon (Furcifer pardalis), a resident of the Masoala Peninsula in northeastern Madagascar, where illegal rosewood logging has taken a heavy toll on forests. Image by Rhett A. Butler.

Madagascar proposes paying illegal loggers to audit or buy their rosewood

Rowan Moore Gerety 8 Aug 2018

95 percent of all lemur species face high risk of extinction, experts say

Mongabay.com 2 Aug 2018

Forest communities pay the price for conservation in Madagascar

John Cannon 25 Jul 2018

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