Madagascar: Like No Place Else On Earth

Nosy Be, Madagascar

Locals who have benefited from eco/wildlife toursim in the past are now pressuring the government and asking for international support to end the widespread destruction of Madagascar’s reserves.  Jungle Jenny is truly appalled from what has happened to the biodiversity in Madagascar last year.  Rhett Butler, who is the founder and editor of Mongabay.com, one of the leading sites on the Web covering tropical forests and biodiversity wrote a wonderful article on January 4, 2010 about the threat to Madagascar’s conservation efforts and political chaos that occured last year.  Click here for entire article.