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Hectares or so. that's quite a lot but it's nothing compared to the extent of the forest that has been damaged. >> and to fight the devastation of precious wetlands, his secret weapons are female entrepreneurs. how does a family in mad gasaga work? is the man in charge or is the woman in charge? [ laughter ] >> so the man is in charge but the woman manages the money. >> and there is not much to manage. like so much of the nation, they are subsistence farmers. they eat what they grow with little left over to sell.

That without good and healthy forest to get the woods, some reeves to get the fish. >> do you hope a leader will rise, someone who's capable? >> i think it will come. i think it will come. it may be another person, but it will come. what is the main vision for madagascar? if you go to australia, for example, australia is a mining country. madagascar is what country? a crisis country? we come into this world needing others. ♪ then we are told it's braver to go it alone. ♪ but there is another way to live. ♪ a way that sees the only path to fulfillment-

Is one of the pourest countries in the world. so here's thehallenge- how you pro text what's left of the natural forest, the limurs and chameleons and lift these folks out of crushing poverty at the same time? >> to search for clues, we made wade into an african melting pod, tribes still divided by skin color, blood line and class. this was a french colony but there have been coups and assassinations, despotic dictators and failed democracies while one crisis after another slashed and burned the economy,

Ancestors and then they maybe a blessing and a prayer and make an offering. >> traditional belief is common and powerful in madagascar. and while science and religion don't normally mix, phillippe uses whatever he can to keep his neighbors from cutting forest. you're trying to spread spiritual belief, morph foding and -- foding is a set of ancient taboos because the spirits of their ancestors might live inside them. he tells me that this general race has been raised with much