Due to ongoing threats of disaster impacts, hunting and deforestation, lemurs are the most endangered group of mammals in the ...

Native to Madagascar and tropical Africa, the dragon’s blood tree is IUCN listed as ... its small populations are harvested heavily and, like many endemic Malagasy plants, its habitat is at risk.

This is particularly true in island ecosystems, such as Madagascar, where endemic species are confined. AllAfrica publishes around 500 reports a day from more than 110 news organizations and over ...

Tsingy de Bemaraha National Park, in northwestern Madagascar, is filled with breathtaking shards of karst limestone. Creating a landscape of sharp, jutting rock, centuries of erosion have eaten away ...

“This species was very active after rain in late ... micro-endemism is generally thought to be the rule in this Madagascar-endemic subfamily of microhylid frogs,” Scherz wrote.

The construction of the Balbina hydroelectric dam in the Brazilian Amazon led to the loss of seven endemic fish species in the Uatumã River, researchers have found. The hydroelectric dam has ...