Positive news from Madagascar
Madagascar Gets Biggest Lemur ParkGood news for lemurs: Officials in Madagascar have created the island's biggest protected wildlife park. Named Makira Natural Park, the area is larger than the state of than the state of Rhode Island, and it provides a habitat for the highest diversity of lemurs on the planet, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) announced.
"Makira Natural Park also will protect some less cuddly creatures, including the Madagascar serpent eagle and the island's only large predator, the cat-like fossa, which eats lemurs and needs large areas of intact forest to maintain healthy populations,"
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Madagascar Gets Biggest Lemur Park
Source: Live Science, Fri August 17, 2012 |
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Source: BBC, Mon October 11, 2010 |
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Researchers Develop New Conservation Map For Biodiversity Hotspot
York, UK (SPX) Apr 14, 2008 -
A conservation biologist at the University of York is part of an international team of researchers that has developed a remarkable new road map for protecting thousands of rare species that live only in Madagascar. The researchers, including Professor Chris Thomas, prepared a detailed conservation plan for lemurs, ants, butterflies, frogs, geckos and plants across the 226,642-square-mile island, considered one of the most significant biodiversity hot spots in the world.
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Giant “Frog From Hell"Fossil Found in Madagascar
Scientists working in Madagascar have found what may be the largest frog that ever lived?and it had an attitude to match, experts say.
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Madagascar Creates Millions of Acres of New Protected AreasAntananarivo, Madagascar - The government of Madagascar has established 15 new conservation areas encompassing a total of 2.65 million acres (about a million hectares) on the East African island famed for its unique wildlife. |
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