Conservation in Madagascar News

Madagascar has been a global conservation priority for decades, receiving hundreds of millions of dollars in conservation funds from international donors, but rising deforestation, commercial exploitation of wildlife, and degradation of critical habitats suggest that conservation investments may not be reaching their full potential. This series investigates the effectiveness of past conservation spending in Madagascar, examining the factors that contribute to or hinder success, with the aim of informing future investments.

Even as the government bets big on carbon, REDD+ flounders in Madagascar

Malavika Vyawahare 18 Aug 2021

Madagascar reopens national parks shuttered by COVID-19

Rivonala Razafison 17 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 and 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

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

Marijuana cultivation whittling away Madagascar’s largest connected forest

Edward Carver 29 May 2020

Evidence that fish flourish in a community-managed marine area offers hope

Malavika Vyawahare 21 May 2020

Brookesia chameleon in the rainforest of Madagascar's Masoala Peninsula. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

As visitors vanish, Madagascar’s protected areas suffer a ‘devastating’ blow

Malavika Vyawahare 5 May 2020

A ‘crazy beast’ that coexisted with dinosaurs discovered from Madagascar

Mongabay.com 30 Apr 2020

COVID-19 will hurt Madagascar’s conservation funding: Q&A with Minister Vahinala Raharinirina

Malavika Vyawahare 24 Apr 2020

Madagascar’s president promotes unproven herbal cure for COVID-19

Malavika Vyawahare 20 Apr 2020

Ring-tailed lemurs ‘stink flirt’ (it’s not as bad as it sounds)

Mongabay.com 16 Apr 2020

In Madagascar, revived environmental crime hotline leads to tortoise bust

Edward Carver 6 Apr 2020

National parks in Africa shutter over COVID-19 threat to great apes

Malavika Vyawahare 26 Mar 2020

Three new species of chameleons emerge from centuries-old entanglement

Malavika Vyawahare 20 Mar 2020

Madagascar off pace to meet Aichi targets, which is bad news for the world

Malavika Vyawahare 18 Mar 2020

Marginalized voices from resource conflicts enter the mainstream via video

Malavika Vyawahare 28 Feb 2020

Raze here, save there: Do biodiversity offsets work for people or ecosystems?

Malavika Vyawahare 28 Feb 2020

Lucky ducks: Once thought extinct, rare pochards take steps toward recovery

Edward Carver 6 Feb 2020

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