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A community portal about Madagascar with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Madagascar or Malagasy Republic, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean, off the southeastern coast of Africa. The main island, also called... [more]
A community portal about Madagascar with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Madagascar or Malagasy Republic, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean, off the southeastern coast of Africa. The main island, also called Madagascar, is the fourth largest island in the world, and is home to five percent of the world's plant and animal species, (more than 80 percent of which are indigenous to Madagascar.) Most notable are the lemur infraorder of primates, the carnivorous fossa, three endemic bird families and six endemic baobab species. The adjective for Madagascar is Malagasy (pronounced "mal-la-gas-ee" or "mal-a-gash"), and the official national language is the Malagasy language.
Madagascar is the world's fourth largest island, and is recognized as one of the world's top ten hotspots for biodiversity. It is estimated that there are between 8,000- 12,000 plant species on the island and, of these, 80% or more are endemic. This, combined with the fact that the island's natural vegetation is at risk due to high levels of deforestation, has made Madagascar of paramount importance to the work of RBG Kew.
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Madagascar authorities sought to regain contact with southern parts of this Indian Ocean island Monday, a day after a powerful cyclone destroyed homes and caused flooding before heading toward the African mainland.
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I found this heartening story from Madagascar on BBC online today, about the numbers of rare and endangered tortoises that have been rescued from smugglers of late. In one of the most recent seizures, a single Nigerian man was arrested with 300 tortoises in his possession! Most smuggled tortoises find their way into the exotic pet trade, selling for as much as $10,000. However, experts believe that the rarest species, the ploughshare tortoise (pictured here), could be extinct within 10 years...
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A Boca Raton man is suing DreamWorks Animation SKG, claiming the studio stole his ideas to create the 2005 movie Madagascar. Joseph Davis of Boca Raton claims he sent his work, Animal's Night Out, to DreamWorks in 1999 and that his story is similar to Madagascar -- both feature New York locales...
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A Florida man is suing DreamWorks Animation SKG, claiming the studio stole his ideas to create the 2005 movie "Madagascar."
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IMAX Corporation and DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. announced an agreement on Monday to release Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa into IMAX® theatres worldwide on November 7, 2008.
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A government decision to ban rice exports to cushion Madagascar against spiralling global food prices will bring temporary relief, but observers say the island's goal of food self-sufficiency will remain a ...
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The policy lays emphasis on rice, potatoes and maize, for which special agricultural zones have already been identified by Madagascar. ...
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A government decision to ban rice exports to cushion Madagascar against spiralling global food prices will bring temporary relief, but observers say the island's goal of food self-sufficiency will remain a pipedream unless underlying problems are dealt with.
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ANTANANARIVO, May 13 (Xinhua) -- The World Bank (WB) provided a grant of 40 million U.S. dollars to support integrated economic growth (IEG) in the Indian Ocean island country. WB country manager to Madagascar, Robert Blake, and Madagascan Minister ...
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Madagascar's President Invests in U.S. University Education for 24 Students as 'Future Leaders' of His NationABILENE, TexasTX-ACU
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A son found his parents dead in their home in the 1900 block of Madagascar Lane.
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