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A few miners continue to work an old mine called Andasiakondro, where a ruby rush drew some 10,000 people in 2002.

What happens after a mining rush? Photographs from Madagascar

Arnaud De Grave 31 Jul 2017
Ring-tailed lemur. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Ring-tailed lemurs down by 95 percent? Maybe not.

Matthew P. Reed 19 Jun 2017

More than 300 smuggled tortoises seized in Malaysia

Shreya Dasgupta 17 May 2017
Ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta) in Madagascar. Photo by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Anti-trafficking activist held without trial in Madagascar

Fabienne Rafidiharinirina 8 May 2017
Diademed Sifaka (Propithecus diadema), a species threatened by the Madagascar rosewood trade. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Singapore convicts rosewood trader in historic CITES seizure

Edward Carver 26 Apr 2017

Will Madagascar lose its most iconic primate?

Matthew P. Reed 24 Mar 2017

LemurFaceID: The facial recognition tech helping researchers track lemurs in the wild

Mike Gaworecki 1 Mar 2017

Study finds more than 350k trees illegally felled in Madagascar’s protected areas in five-year span

Mike Gaworecki 23 Feb 2017
A close relative of Geckolepis maculata, Gecklolepis megalepis, a new species of fish-scale gecko, was described earlier this year. Photo courtesy of Frank Glaw

Newly discovered gecko loses scales in ‘really bizarre’ behavior

Benji Jones 16 Feb 2017

New species of dwarf lemur discovered in Madagascar

Shreya Dasgupta 7 Feb 2017

Primates face impending extinction – what’s next?

Russell A. Mittermeier and Anthony B. Rylands 24 Jan 2017

Study looks at positive and negative impacts of biodiversity offsets on local communities

Mike Gaworecki 23 Dec 2016

Sapphire boom propels thousands into Madagascar rainforest

John Cannon 1 Dec 2016

Madagascar’s largest tortoise could become extinct in 2 years

Shreya Dasgupta 27 Sep 2016

What conservation isn’t: Eating endangered lemurs to save them

Kim Reuter / Marni Lafleur / Tara Clarke 23 Aug 2016

Protecting the animal that eats lemurs — why it’s important to conserve Madagascar’s largest carnivore

Samuel D. Merson 5 Jul 2016

Bringing Star Trek tricorder analysis to the 21st century

Hina Alam 4 Jul 2016

Benefits of Community Forest Management in Madagascar not evenly distributed: report

Mike Gaworecki 28 Jun 2016

In search of Madagascar’s “marine primates”

Mike Gaworecki 17 Jun 2016

Conservation today, the old-fashioned way

Jeremy Hance 10 May 2016

7 conservationists win the ‘Green Oscars’

Shreya Dasgupta 28 Apr 2016

Three new mouse lemurs, which are actually primates, found in Madagascar

Mike Gaworecki 20 Apr 2016

Conservation and birth control: a controversial mix?

Roz Evans 14 Mar 2016

Will mining company drive mass extinction of Madagascar’s wildlife?

Shreya Dasgupta 11 Mar 2016

Humans torched Madagascar’s forests 1,000 years ago, driving mass extinction

Mongabay.com 7 Mar 2016

When poor people pay the price for forest conservation

Mike Gaworecki 18 Feb 2016

77 inspiring rainforest pictures

Rhett A. Butler 14 Feb 2016

In the rush to reforest, are the world’s old-growth grasslands losing out?

Morgan Erickson-Davis 10 Feb 2016

Primate-Watching: In the Year of the Monkey, let’s build a Conservation Movement

Russell A. Mittermeier 3 Feb 2016

Madagascar scientists unsure how best to guard frogs from fungus

Elizabeth Devitt 30 Jan 2016

International embargo on exports of Madagascar’s precious woods extended

Mike Gaworecki 19 Jan 2016

As education grows so does the awareness of conserving biodiversity

Brittany Stewart 14 Jan 2016

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