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Why does this Field Museum scientist live in Madagascar? Because that’s where you find the oddest creatures.

Of the Chicago museum’s 150 or so scientists, Steve Goodman is the only one who’s permanently in the field. For 35 years, he has worked in the island nation whose isolation makes it one of the planet’s most biologically rich places.

Chicago Sun-Times

What exactly is in your fragrance? Dominique Roques reveals some industry secrets

Humans have long wondered how to capture and recreate some of nature's most beautiful scents. What goes into a bottle of fragrance can be surprising.

ABC News

MH370: Landing gear lowered before doomed flight crashed ‘suggesting criminal intent’

A new piece of wreckage has reportedly been discovered on the shore of Madagascar

Evening Standard

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Discovered in the deep: the extraordinary sawshark with a weapon-like snout

With the help of fishers in Madagascar and Tanzania, scientists named two new species of rare sixgill sawsharks

The Guardian - UK

What's driving a rise in violence in the French overseas department of Mayotte?

In 2009 the archipelago of Mayotte, nestled in the Indian Ocean between Madagascar and the African coast, voted in a referendum to become France's newest overseas department. Many hoped the change would help the territory avoid the violence that plagued the nearby Comoros Islands, which opted for independence in the…

France 24

Restoring Mayotte’s lagoon: when a newly born volcano meets human resilience

One of France’s five overseas departments, Mayotte is the southernmost island of the Comoros Archipelago, located Indian ocean between Madagascar and the African mainland. The island is the centrepiece of a coral-reef structure that was created over hundreds of thousands of years through volcanic episodes, subsidence and sea-level shifts. Made…

The Conversation

Whale watching in Gabon: Where humpbacks go to give birth

A few decades ago, humpback whales were endangered, with only 10,000 of them left. But a global push for better protection has meant that whale watching, not whale hunting, is now a thriving industry. Every summer, the mammals travel to the warm swallow waters of the Gulf of Guinea and…

France 24

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Lemurs from Madagascar have specialised fingers for picking their noses

Researchers have recorded the aye-aye inserting a finger up its nostrils and then eating the mucus

The Independent UK

Madagascar minister fired for voting against Russia's Ukraine annexation

Madagascar's president has fired his foreign affairs minister for voting at the United Nations to condemn Russian-organised referendums to annex four partially-occupied regions in Ukraine, two sources at the president's office said.

Reuters

World’s Largest Chameleons Born At Zoo

So far 10 chameleons have emerged from their eggs, with another 17 still in incubation.

Zenger

Monkeys forced to spend more time and abandon treetop homes, study finds

Scientists warn climate change and deforestation are the factors leading to a new wave of primates spending more time on the forest floor ground

Daily Mirror

New Zealand Zoo More than Doubles Its Population of Endangered Lemurs

New Zealand's Wellington Zoo has more than doubled its population of endangered ring-tailed lemurs after its four females gave birth to twins, the zoo's primate manager said on Tuesday. Ring-tailed lemurs, endemic to Madagascar, are on the endangered list.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Rare fossa triplets born at Chester Zoo for the first time

The 12-week old pups have emerged from their den for the first time

Manchester Evening News

Africa regional air safety agency ASECNA says threatened with wildcat strike

A 48-hour strike planned by some staff of French-speaking West Africa and Madagascar aviation safety agency ASECNA starting on Friday, could impact some flight operations in the region, the agency said in a statement on Thursday.

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Anger mounts in Madagascar following deadly police shooting of mob

On August 29, a young albino child was kidnapped and his 21-year-old mother murdered in the remote village of Ambatolampy in south-eastern Madagascar. Recent years have seen a rise in murders of Albinos on the island, with their body parts often used in rituals and ceremonies. The crime triggered a…

Radio France Internationale

Fears world’s smallest primate may have quietly gone extinct

The world's smallest primate, Madame Berthe's mouse lemur, may have gone extinct as large swathes of its forest home are cleared for crops, scientists studying the species in western Madagascar warn.

Wales Online

Maddison Levi's try-saving tackle for the ages leaves rugby viewers in awe

Veronique Rasoanekena looked certain to score Madagascar's first World Cup try, only for a last-ditch tackle to stop her

Evening Standard

At least 19 dead after Madagascar police open fire at ‘lynch mob’ attacking police station

Hundreds of people stormed a police station in anger at the kidnapping of an albino child

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Police in Madagascar open fire on a crowd seeking revenge for abduction of albino child

At least 19 people were killed by police in a town in Madagascar, who opened fire on what they claim was a lynch mob angered at the kidnapping of an albino child.

France 24

Madagascar police shoot dead protesters seeking revenge for albino kidnapping

Madagascar police confirmed Tuesday that officers killed 19 people and injured 21 others after opening fire on what was described as a lynch mob angered over the kidnapping of an albino child.

Financial Times

Why famine in Madagascar is an alarm bell for the planet

The UN says it is the first famine caused by climate change. Those caught up in it describe a desperate fight to survive

Reuters

At least 32 people killed after bandits set homes on fire in Madagascar

At least 32 people were killed in Madagascar in an area north of the capital on Friday after local bandits known as "dahalo" set homes on fire, according to statements by the defence ministry.

Al Jazeera

Afghan refugees protest delayed visas at US embassy in Madagascar

Afghan refugees living in the east African island nation say they lack basic support and want to be relocated to the US.

Zenger

Shell Garage: Three-legged Tortoise Gets A Set Of Wheels

A three-legged tortoise, which was rescued from smugglers, has been given a new lease on life by a zoo after being fitted with WHEELS to help him get around.

Newsroom.co.nz

Dining out on the hypothetical bisons of Madagascar

Some brutally real answers to some hypothetical climate scenarios.

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