Madagascar’s extraordinary medicinal plants, prized for their unique properties and used in life-saving cancer drugs and health products, are being harvested in unregulated quantities for local and ...

Fruit-eating lemurs are one of the most important dispersers of seeds in Madagascar. But at least 17 species of Malagasy lemurs have gone extinct within the past few thousand years. According to a ...

Somewhere in the faraway Mozambique Channel, on Madagascar’s tiny, roadless, volcanic “Lemur Island,” a tawny-colored, wet-nosed, white-maned, utterly adorable lemur suddenly pounced from a tree in ...