Mr. Shaw has been a missionary in Madagascar for many years, and has thus had ample opportunity of gaining a knowledge of the interesting island. To those familiar with the literature of ...

This is likely down to Madagascar's geography and relative isolation, two things that have also seen the island blessed with a distinctive biodiversity – 90 per cent of its wildlife is not found ...

I was also surprised that most of these—about 44,000 species—were endemic to a single island only, such as Madagascar or New Guinea. These numbers were far higher than expected, given that ...