Effort to save Madagascar rainforest paying off
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ANDRINGITRA NATIONAL PARK, Madagascar -- Martin Randriantsoa, a nature guide, stopped at a sacred waterfall and stuck his hand into a cold, clear pool. Underneath a rock, he fished out a Malagasy crayfish, plentiful in these streams, but a species found only on this island nation. He watched the crayfish walk across his palm before releasing it.
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By MICHAEL CASEY  CHEME, Thailand - For much of his life, Viroj Dedsongprak paid little attention to the mangrove forests that surrounded his Thai village. He thought nothing of it when neighbors chopped down trees for firewood or plowed them under for shrimp ponds.
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The Republic of Congo will set aside up to 3,800 square miles (1 million hectares) of land to help preserve elephants, chimpanzees, hippos, crocodiles, and gorillas.
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The federal government and a nonprofit group are buying the land from local farmers to ensure its biodiversity is preserved. BY LISA J. ADAMS /Associated Press.
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Donations made on the Wildlife Direct website pay the salaries of the park rangers who protect the endangered apes.
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Botanists discover a species of giant self-destructing palm in Madagascar, quite unlike an ordinary palm tree.
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ILAKAKA, Madagascar  - Jean Railala plunges his  rectangular sieve into the chocolate-colored river.
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By Natasha Derrick, The State, Columbia, S.C.  Jun. 15--From a distance, a satellite picture of Madagascar appears to be a spindly octopus with long, rusty red tendrils. Or perhaps it is the sprawling flow of lava from an erupting volcano.
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IFOTAKA, Madagascar  - Manahira Mahateraka  communicates with the dead.
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The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, or CITES, in Bangkok has concluded, with conservationists and many of the 166 member nations supportive of steps taken to regulate the trade in rare species.
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Ewire -- A cooperative of eco luxury furniture makers in Vermont has teamed up with forest management experts at LaChonta of Santa Cruz, Bolivia, to help save the Amazon rainforest through the manufacture and sales of high end outdoor eco furniture.
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Pristine forests offer the rare primates a much healthier diet, an anthropologist says, in a finding that may shape future protection efforts on the African island nation of Madagascar.
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About a quarter of all plants known to be threatened in the wild are growing in the world's botanic gardens.
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A 70-million-year-old fossil of a giant frog has been unearthed in Madagascar by a team of UK and US scientists.
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Spreading plantations are blamed for a threat to wildlife.
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Madagascar begins a big campaign against malaria and measles in an effort to reduce infant mortality rates.
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By Rotenberg, James A ABSTRACT.- Established parks and nature reserves may be inadequate to preserve long-term biotic diversity, especially in tropical regions of Latin America where anthropogenic disturbance and land- conversion is an ongoing problem.