TAOLAGNARO, Madagascar – Gabriel Andriamanjaka holds the radiotracking aerial aloft and marches into a spiky forest thicket. Branches whip around his body as he pushes through in pursuit of his ...

Despite pledges to halt deforestation and youth-led efforts to reverse it, Madagascar is losing its trees faster than almost anywhere else on Earth.

One of the many extraordinary facts about Madagascar is that it bears virtually ... at the cause of the terrible distress. The Malagasy forest contains hidden surprises such as the agy vine ...

Jenny Williams, a senior spatial analyst at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London, has been flying small drones over Madagascar to map such activity ... stored by the forest, they have also ...

But many of Madagascar’s protected areas face high rates of forest loss because of expanding slash-and-burn agriculture along with a lack of funding to safeguard green cover. A changing climate ...

So what's to fear in the Malagasy forest? Lots. Peter Tyson is online producer of NOVA and author of The Eighth Continent: Life, Death, and Discovery in the Lost World of Madagascar (William ...