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Emory researchers uncover why some homes in rural Madagascar where bubonic plague is endemic are infested with fleas. Based on their findings, they recommend ways to reduce the flea populations and their impact on human health.
ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar — Camera trap footage from national parks in Madagascar shows dogs roaming the forest either in bands or with their owners, barking at the base of trees where the country’s iconic lemurs are nesting. The cameras caught cats, which tend to be more solitary, with lemurs and snakes in their mouths. The footage, […]
In Madagascar, a program to provide healthcare and help growing food transformed a community's relationship to the rainforest.
In Madagascar, a nonprofit called Health in Harmony is showing the world a new way to prevent outbreaks caused by deforestation. Many funders can’t wrap their heads around it.
A new study by a team of international scientists including Liliana M. Dávalos, professor of conservation biology from Stony Brook University's Department of Ecology and Evolution, reveals that it would take 3 million years to recover the number of species that went extinct from human activity on Madagascar. Published in Nature Communications, the study also projects that if currently threatened species go extinct on Madagascar, recovering them would take more than 20 million years — much longer than what has previously been found on any other island archipelago in the world. From uni...