TAOLAGNARO, Madagascar – Gabriel Andriamanjaka holds ... dazzling afternoon sunlight that easily penetrates the dry and spiny forest canopy. Tortoise 053 is one of 4,000 subadult radiated ...

One of the many extraordinary facts about Madagascar is that it bears virtually ... and otherwise—that can get you in the forests of the world's fourth-largest island. Both places we will ...

Yet their striking resemblance to shrews and other spiny mammals is not ... Image by Jess Webster. A forest stream runs through the jungles of Madagascar. Perhaps for this very reason and like ...

A type of euphorbia, a spiny-desert succulent, can cause actual blindness. Another friend was lying on a tarp gazing up at the forest canopy ... are other things in Madagascar that can make ...

Madagascar, a jewel of biodiversity, appears like a failing state. Since breaking up with France in 1960, Madagascar’s been ...

Razafimamonjiraibe leads conservation teams to protect radiated tortoises (Astrochelys radiata) in southern Madagascar’s spiny forests. The tortoises are targeted both as domestic bushmeat and ...

Caption Over 2 meters tall and 250 kilograms in weight, the elephant bird Aepyornis maximus wanders through the spiny forest of ancient Madagascar. This image relates to a paper that appeared in ...

The spiny forest and the marine ecoregion surrounding it are too precious to see them degrading ... An important feature of the conservation meeting in Toliara was an exhibition about Madagascar’s ...

in Madagascar. No species of my linage, the simians. Over a vast sweep of time, 'the lemurs have diversified to fill all manner of different habitats. From the arid, spiny forests of the south ...