(Reuters) - The baobab tree is a distinctive sight on the landscape. When its contorted branches are leafless during the dry season, they resemble jumbled roots emanating from a thick trunk, making it ...

A group of hikers chatted amiably as they prepared to go on a tour of the Kirindy Forest as part of the First Annual Baobab-Fosa Festival in Menabe, held over the weekend of July 21. Romping around ...

If we do not act now, Baobab Alley could disappear in the coming decades Do you know that if we do not act now, Baobab Alley could disappear in the coming decades? The Menabe Antimena protected area, ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Mongabay founder Rhett A. Butler writes about his visit to the dry forests of western Madagascar last month. The dry forest of western Madagascar ...

A baobab can hold so much water in its swollen trunk that its shape visibly changes with the rainy season. In Africa’s dry savannah, where the climate can be extremely arid, that ability helps explain ...

The baobab tree is a special thing to see. During the dry season, its leafless branches look like roots coming from a thick trunk. It appears as if someone took a tree from the ground, flipped it on ...