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Country Profile: Madagascar |
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Biodiversity
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| Title: |
What's a Lemur? |
| Resource Type: |
Web Site |
| Resource Language(s): |
English |
| Author: |
Dr. Kenneth Glander, Director, Duke University Primate Center |
| Abstract: |
Lemurs are primates, an order that
includes monkeys, apes and humans.
There are approximately 32 different types
of lemurs in existence today, all of which
are endemic to Madagascar. |
| Affiliation: |
Public Broadcasting System |
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| Title: |
A Truly Bizarre Lizard |
| Resource Type: |
Article |
| Resource Language(s): |
English |
| Author: |
Christopher J. Raxworthy |
| Abstract: |
Almost half of the world’s chameleon species
live on the island of Madagascar. This
chameleon community is not only the world’s
largest, it is also the world’s most unique;
with 59 different species existing nowhere
outside of Madagascar. |
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| Title: |
Biodiversity's Contribution to Medicine |
| Resource Type: |
Article |
| Resource Language(s): |
English |
| Abstract: |
This summary describes two drugs derived
from the rosy periwinkle a tropical dry-forest plant from
Madagascar. |
| Affiliation: |
World Resources Institute |
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| Title: |
Conspectus of the Vascular Plants of Madagascar |
| Resource Type: |
Web Site |
| Resource Language(s): |
English |
| Author: |
Various |
| Abstract: |
This report
is the result of an international, multi-institutional effort to make information on all vascular plants occurring in Madagascar widely accessible. It includes:
Malagasy/Indo-Australo-Malesian
Phytogeographic Connections, a paper from the International Symposium on the
Biogeography of Madagascar, 26-28 September 1995, Paris. The
Classification of Natural and Anthropogenic Vegetation In Madagascar, a paper from the
International Symposium entitled "Natural and Human-induced Change in Madagascar"
held at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago 2-4 June 1995.
The Conspectus also includes images of:
Malagasy Cacanthaceae ,Malagasy Anacardiaceae, Malagasy Annonaceae,
Malagasy Apocynaceae,
Malagasy Araliaceae,
Malagasy Arecaceae,
Malagasy Asclepiadaceae,
Malagasy Asteraceae,Malagasy
Balsaminaceae,Malagasy
Bembiciaceae, Malagasy
Bignoniaceae, Malagasy
Boraginaceae, Malagasy
Burseraceae,Malagasy Canellaceae, Malagasy
Capparaceae, Malagasy
Celastraceae, Malagasy
Chrysobalanaceae,Malagasy
Clusiaceae, Malagasy
Combretaceae, Malagasy
Connaraceae, Malagasy
Convolvulaceae, Malagasy
Crassulaceae,Malagasy
Didiereaceae, Malagasy
Didymelaceae, Malagasy
Dilleniaceae,Malagasy
Ebenaceae, Malagasy
Elaeocarpaceae, Malagasy
Ericaceae, Malagasy
Euphorbiaceae, Malagasy
Fabaceae, Malagasy
Flacourtiaceae, Malagasy
Gentianaceae, Malagasy
Gesneriaceae,Malagasy
Hamamelidaceae, MalagasyCacinaceae, Malagasy
Iridaceae,Malagasy
Kaliphoraceae,Malagasy Lecythidaceae, Malagasy
Lentibulariaceae, Malagasy
Liliaceae, Malagasy Linaceae,
Malagasy Loganiaceae,
MalagasyLoranthaceae,
Malagasy
Malvaceae, Malagasy
Melanophyllaceae,Malagasy Melastomataceae,
Malagasy Meliaceaev, Malagasy Menispermaceae,
Malagasy Monimiaceae,
MalagasyMoraceae,
Malagasy Myrsinaceae,Malagasy Myrtaceae,Malagasy Ochnaceae, Malagasy
Oleaceae, Malagasy
OrchidaceaeMalagasy
Pandanaceae, Malagasy Pedaliaceae, Malagasy
Physenaceae, Malagasy Pittosporaceae, Malagasy Polygalaceae Malagasy ProteaceaeMalagasy
Rubiaceae, Malagasy
Sapindaceae, Malagasy
Sapotaceae, Malagasy
Sarcolaenaceae, Malagasy
Simaroubaceae, Malagasy
Solanaceae, Malagasy
Sphaerosepalaceae, Malagasy
Sterculiaceae, Malagasy
Strelitziaceae,Malagasy
Taccaceae, Malagasy
Tiliaceae,Malagasy
Velloziaceae, Malagasy
Verbenaceae, Malagasy
Vitaceae, Malagasy
Winteraceae |
| Affiliation: |
The Missouri Botanical Garden (MO), The Laboratoire de Phanérogamie (P) of the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, The Parc Botanique et Zoologique de Tsimbazaza (TAN), and the Centre National de la Recherche Appliquée au Devéloppement Rural (TEF) |
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| Title: |
Database List |
| Resource Type: |
Web Site |
| Resource Language(s): |
English |
| Abstract: |
Species of flora of listed with
the Convention on International Trade in Endagered Species with distribution that includes
Madagascar - from CITES-listed
Species Database -- maintained by the CITES Secretariat, Switzerland. This page is the result of a search for
Madagascar. The database includes all species of flora listed in the appendices of CITES
with the exception of Appendix II Orchidaceae. These species only appear if they have been
recorded in WCMC's Global Plants Database. Hybrid generic names of Cactaceae and
Orchidaceae are not included. Information on the full appendix history of the taxa
selected (as at 19 March 1998) is provided, as are all specific reservations entered by
Parties. The database also includes 1997 IUCN Red List of
Threatened Plants: Red Data Book Categories. |
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| Title: |
Flowers of Madagascar |
| Resource Type: |
Web Site |
| Resource Language(s): |
English |
| Abstract: |
This photographic collection entitled Flowers of Madagascar from Texas A&M University Department of Biology Herbarium includes: Capparaceae,
Clusiaceae, Didieraceae, Dilleniaceae, Ebenaceae, Elaeocarpaceae, Ericaceae, Flacourtiaceae, Lecythidaceae, Malvaceae, Moraceae, Myrsinaceae, Ochnaceae, Physenaceae, Sapotaceae, Sarcolaenaceae, Sphaerosepalaceae, Sterculiaceae, Tiliaceae |
| Affiliation: |
Texas A&M University Department of Biology Herbarium |
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| Title: |
FY 2000 Congressional Presentation |
| Resource Type: |
Report |
| Resource Language(s): |
English |
| Author: |
USAID |
| Abstract: |
USAID's FY 2000 program will focus on: 1) conserving Madagascar's unique biological diversity; health (including important child survival programs),
family planning, and HIV/AIDS prevention; 2) food security and disaster preparedness and relief; and 3) supporting private initiative. The requested
P.L. 480 Title II resources for FY 2000 are critical to assuring that USAID's food security strategy reaches vulnerable populations. USAID's partners
will use proceeds from the Title II monetization program to finance activities focused on increasing food availability, access, and utilization. They will
also work among populations living in areas prone to disasters to build local capacities for cyclone, drought, and/or locust preparedness, mitigation and
response. |
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| Title: |
Humpbacks of Madagascar |
| Resource Type: |
Web Site |
| Resource Language(s): |
English |
| Author: |
Maryalice Yakutchik |
| Abstract: |
This is a series of
15 articles (with photographs) about a 1998 American Museum of
Natural History expedition. It includes:
Season of Song, Squalor and Hope, Humpback Horde, Courtship, Mysterious Melodies,
Camp Nosy Mangabe,
The "Big
God", Bon
Appétit!, Little
Yellow Logbook, Secret
Life of Plants, Mother
Knows Best, Touched
by a Whale, Aye-Aye,
Famadihana,
A Farewell
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| Title: |
Madagascar Biodiversity and Conservation (May,1996.) |
| Resource Type: |
Web Site |
| Resource Language(s): |
English |
| Author: |
David R. Parks |
| Abstract: |
This is:
"...more of a slide show/travelogue than a real photoessay." A total of 179 photographs are
accompanied by narrative text covering:
Background, history and culture,
Urban wildlife,
Rainforest (Ranomafana National Park, Analamazoatra
(Perinet) Reserve area, Montagne d’Ambre National Park , Masoala Peninsula, and Nosy
Mangabe Reserve)
Former Rainforest near Sambava
Dry tropical forest (Ankarana Reserve, Ampijoroa
Forestry Station
Spiny desert (near the village of Ranomainty and Andohahela
Reserve Parcel 2 along the Mananara River)
Conservation and development issues
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| Affiliation: |
Stanford University |
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| Title: |
Smallest primates discovered in Madagascar |
| Resource Type: |
Article |
| Resource Language(s): |
English |
| Abstract: |
Article (Tuesday, 14 November, 2000, 10:24 GMT)on the discovery in Madagascar of previously unknown species of mouse
lemur, the world's smallest primate.
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| Affiliation: |
BBC News |
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| Title: |
Summary Statement |
| Resource Type: |
Web Site |
| Resource Language(s): |
English |
| Abstract: |
Statement about the major threats to the biodiversity of Madagascar from Conservation International (CI) - deforestation, poverty, economic underdevelopment, and political instability. CI's broad programmatic objectives in Madagascar include: [1] protected area conservation, [2] natural forest inventory and management, [3] identification of key biodiversity conservation regions. CI implements these goals through the Zahamena,
the Ankarafantsika,
and COEFOR (classified forest) projects. |
| Affiliation: |
Conservation International (CI) |
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