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‘Monumental’ bust in Madagascar triggers effort to save thousands of endangered tortoises

Mongabay.com 25 Apr 2018

More than 40 percent of Madagascar’s freshwater life sliding toward extinction, IUCN finds

Mongabay.com 22 Mar 2018
A critically endangered indri lemur (Indri indri). Ten indris were killed in the recent poaching incident. Photo by Rhett A. Butler. A critically endangered indri lemur (Indri indri). Ten indris were killed in the recent poaching incident. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Madagascar: Conservation official arrested for killing 11 endangered lemurs

Riana Raymonde Randrianarisoa 16 Mar 2018
Local fishers in the fishing town of Beheloke in southwestern Madagascar. Photo by Rowan Moore Gerety for Mongabay.

Will Madagascar’s industrial shrimp trawlers make way for local fishers?

Edward Carver 14 Mar 2018

DJ and ornithologists create wildlife music game

Erik Hoffner 21 Feb 2018
An indri (Indri indri), another critically endangered lemur that lives in Makira Natural Park. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Study delves into overlooked community perceptions of conservation impact

Shreya Dasgupta 20 Feb 2018

Scientists discover 18 new spider-hunting spiders from Madagascar

Morgan Erickson-Davis 9 Feb 2018

Tree-dwelling animals can ‘climb’ away from climate change, study finds

Shreya Dasgupta 9 Feb 2018

There’s a new member of the lemur family

Mike Gaworecki 11 Jan 2018

Do protected areas work in the tropics?

Shreya Dasgupta 18 Dec 2017
Red ruffed lemur (Varecia rubra), a species that lives in northeastern Madagascar, where rosewood logging has been severe. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

CITES rejects Madagascar’s bid to sell rosewood and ebony stockpiles

Edward Carver 12 Dec 2017
Coquerel's sifaka (Propithecus coquereli), a species that lives in Bongolava. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Abandoned by their sponsors, Madagascar’s orphaned parks struggle on

Rowan Moore Gerety 8 Dec 2017
An indri (Indri indri), another critically endangered lemur that lives in Makira Natural Park. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Carbon dreams: Can REDD+ save a Yosemite-size forest in Madagascar?

Rowan Moore Gerety 29 Nov 2017
The Maasai people in Kenya pass down environmental knowledge through storytelling. Photo courtesy of Joan de la Malla.

Storytelling empowers indigenous people to conserve their environments

Nicoletta Lanese 27 Nov 2017
An endangered Sambirano mouse lemur (Microcebus sambiranensis), which is found only in two or three small populations in northwest Madagascar, including one on the Ampasindava peninsula. Photo by Leslie Wilmet.

Another blow to troubled Madagascar rare earth mine

Edward Carver 22 Nov 2017
Men and women spend hours sowing rice seedlings and ploughing the land. Photo by Dan Ashby and Lucy Taylor for Mongabay.

To feed a growing population, farms chew away at Madagascar’s forests

Dan Ashby and Lucy Taylor 17 Nov 2017
A baby silky sifaka lemur (Propithecus candidus) in Marojejy National Park. Photo by Dan Ashby and Lucy Taylor for Mongabay.

Lemur on the menu: most-endangered primates still served in Madagascar

Dan Ashby and Lucy Taylor 15 Nov 2017
Franco Rajaonarison, a guide, shows a rosewood stump in Marojejy National Park. Photo by Dan Ashby and Lucy Taylor for Mongabay.

Madagascar petitions CITES to sell millions in stolen rosewood

Dan Ashby and Lucy Taylor 13 Nov 2017
A fossa (Cryptoprocta ferox), a species that lives in Marojejy National Park, which was ground zero for Madagascar’s rosewood logging crisis in 2009. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Logjam: Inside Madagascar’s illegal-rosewood stockpiles

Rowan Moore Gerety 8 Nov 2017
Dani man in Indonesian papua. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Does community-based forest management work in the tropics?

Shreya Dasgupta 2 Nov 2017
A white spotted reed frog (Heterixalus alboguttatus) in Ranomafana National Park, about 30 miles west of Vohilava. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Madagascar environmental activist convicted, sentenced — and paroled

Edward Carver 2 Nov 2017
Sanazy, from Beheloke Haut, says “hunger” pushed her to start farming seaweed three years ago: she earns about $20 from the crop during her best months. Photo by Rowan Moore Gerety for Mongabay.

Fish vs. forests? Madagascar’s marine conservation boom

Rowan Moore Gerety 1 Nov 2017

Lemur species losing favorite food to climate change, new study says

Mongabay.com 26 Oct 2017
With a greater hedgehog tenrec (Setifer setosus) stretched out on her lap, Voahangy Soarimalala of Association Vahatra demonstrates measurement techniques for small mammals to a group of masters students from the University of Antananarivo in the Andranomena Special Reserve. Photo courtesy of Association Vahatra.

Building conservation’s brain trust in Madagascar

Rowan Moore Gerety 25 Oct 2017

Another Madagascar environmental activist imprisoned

Edward Carver 20 Oct 2017
Each dry season, members of the community group VOI Sohisika try to keep brush fires at bay with controlled burns that run along firebreaks on the perimeter of the preserve. Photo courtesy of Missouri Botanical Garden.

How small is too small? The uncertain fate of Madagascar’s forest fragments

Rowan Moore Gerety 18 Oct 2017

Island-hopping toxic toad threatens iconic Komodo dragon

Sean Mowbray 11 Oct 2017
chameleon, a species that lives in Ranomafana National Park. Photo by

Conservation in a weak state: Madagascar struggles with enforcement

Rowan Moore Gerety 10 Oct 2017

Can community forestry deliver for Madagascar’s forests and people?

Rowan Moore Gerety 2 Oct 2017

How effective is conservation in Madagascar? Series starts next week

Rowan Moore Gerety 28 Sep 2017

Madagascar’s radiated tortoises have personalities, too

Jacqueline Hernandez 9 Aug 2017
The Mittermeier sportive lemur (Lepilemur mittermeieri) is found only on the Ampasindava peninsula. Researchers warn that its population could be harmed if TREM moves ahead. Photo by Leslie Wilmet.

Troubled firm aims to mine Madagascar forest for rare earth elements

Edward Carver 8 Aug 2017

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