The human-driven extinction of fruit-eating lemurs on Madagascar has created multiple "orphan" plant species with precarious futures because their primary seed dispersers are gone, scientists say. The ...

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 ...

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In a 4x4 bumping and rattling along a dirt road in Madagascar, Nomentsoa Randria­mamonjy explains a local idiom. A few generations ago, the phrase “when the eastern forest disappears” was Madagascar’s ...