Madagascar, an island nation located off the southeastern coast of Africa, is famous for its unique biodiversity, stunning ...

Madagascar has been told that it needs to do more to stop the illegal harvest and export of rosewood and other precious woods. The CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species) ...

Add the illegal wildlife trade, which removes animals from their ... were a mixture of various types of lemurs – endemic to Madagascar – and tortoises. Authorities found species such as ...

“The Committee’s failure to recommend trade sanctions in the absence of any concrete progress from Madagascar will have potentially far-reaching impacts on Madagascar’s fast disappearing forests,” ...

But Dutch commercial animal trader Olaf Pronk, who was well known for dealing in rare Malagasy reptiles, pushed the Madagascar government to sue to get the tortoises back. “It became a messy legal ...

More than 90% of the seized wildlife were live animals, mostly amphibians, reptiles and birds destined primarily for the exotic pet trade. Nearly 75% of the seized species were not CITES-listed ...