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Juvenile sakondry on a branch. Their dusty coating is washed off before they’re cooked. Image by Brian Fisher.

Bug bites: Edible insect production ramps up quickly in Madagascar

Emilie Filou 19 Nov 2020

A Malagasy community wins global recognition for saving its lake

Malavika Vyawahare 18 Nov 2020

The riddle of Madagascar’s megafauna extinction just got trickier

Malavika Vyawahare 17 Nov 2020

Podcast: Lemur love and award-winning plant passion in Madagascar

Mike Gaworecki 11 Nov 2020

A chameleon not seen in a century reappears in a Madagascar garden

Mongabay.com 2 Nov 2020

Lemurs might never recover from COVID-19 (commentary)

Malavika Vyawahare 30 Oct 2020

How do red-fronted lemurs behave? Candid Animal Cam is in Madagascar

Romina Castagnino 27 Oct 2020

Madagascar shuts down ‘illegal’ gold mine but activists remain in legal limbo

Edward Carver 21 Oct 2020

Madagascar experiments with drones for its massive reforestation effort

Rivonala Razafison 19 Oct 2020

Madagascar’s top court criticizes government handling of mining project

Edward Carver 9 Oct 2020

Indian embassy in Madagascar becomes first to go fully solar

Mongabay.com 2 Oct 2020

Madagascar reopens national parks shuttered by COVID-19

Rivonala Razafison 17 Sep 2020
Cacao pod in Peru. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Latin America has twice the plant life of Africa, SE Asia

Mongabay.com 9 Sep 2020

Madagascar introduces stoves that burn rice husks instead of forests

Valisoa Rasolofomboahangy 2 Sep 2020

Madagascar giant frog is a new species, but also a deep-fried delicacy

Rivonala Razafison 1 Sep 2020

Ex-Wall Street ‘quant’ wields data to replant charred Madagascar rainforests

Erica Tennenhouse 31 Aug 2020

Madagascar minister calls protected areas a ‘failure,’ seeks people-centric approach

Rivonala Razafison, Malavika Vyawahare 20 Aug 2020

Say hello to Madagascar’s newest mouse lemur, a pint-sized primate

Malavika Vyawahare 3 Aug 2020

Endangered and endemic: Madagascar’s lemurs susceptible to coronavirus infection

Rivonala Razafison 31 Jul 2020

World Bank-backed attempt to commercialize Madagascar’s beef industry falters

Malavika Vyawahare 24 Jul 2020

A fire and a firing: Double whammy for Madagascar environmental regulator

Malavika Vyawahare 17 Jul 2020

Risking death and arrest, Madagascar fishers chase dwindling sea cucumbers

Chris Scarffe 15 Jul 2020

An export boom threatens to put Madagascar’s mud crabs in hot water

Malavika Vyawahare 14 Jul 2020

Can a mine and a community group save the tiny golden mantella frog?

Rivonala Razafison 14 Jul 2020

A third of Madagascar’s lemur species on the brink of extinction, IUCN warns

Malavika Vyawahare 10 Jul 2020

Madagascar remembers Guy Suzon Ramangason, a champion of protected areas

Mickah Raharisoa 9 Jul 2020

After canoe chase, Madagascar authorities seize 144 endangered tortoises

Edward Carver 9 Jul 2020
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.

COVID-19 lockdown precipitates deforestation across Asia and South America

James Fair 3 Jul 2020

In Madagascar’s capital, pollution threatens an oasis for birds

Valisoa Rasolofomboahangy 2 Jul 2020

In Madagascar’s dry forests, COVID-19 sparks an intense, early fire season

Malavika Vyawahare 25 Jun 2020

One-two punch of drought, pandemic hits Madagascar’s poor and its wildlife

Malavika Vyawahare 12 Jun 2020

Grasslands claim their ground in Madagascar

Edward Carver 9 Jun 2020

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