A2 Biodiversity: Madagascar's logging Crisis

Exploiting a political crisis, Malagasy timber barons are robbing this island nation of its sylvan heritage, illegally cutting down scarce species of rosewood trees in poorly protected national parks and exporting most of the valuable logs to China.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/25/world/africa/25madagascar.html

7th June 2010
Madagascar's Logging Crisis

Exploiting a political crisis, Malagasy timber barons are robbing this island nation of its sylvan heritage, illegally cutting down scarce species of rosewood trees in poorly protected national parks and exporting most of the valuable logs to China.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/25/world/africa/25madagascar.html

7th June 2010


Climate Change map

This map from the Met Office shows the effects of a 4 Degree warming of the earth. http://www.actoncopenhagen.decc.gov.uk/content/en/embeds/flash/4-degrees-large-map-final

25th October 2009


Madagascar Feels The Heat of Climate Change
23rd October 2009
Madagascar Rainforest Documentary
15th June 2009