The Latest Breaking News from Madagascar

A reimagined Miary Zo looks more like the original concept art.

Three fossa cubs have been born at a Paris zoo – a rare event for one of Madagascar’s most elusive and endangered mammals. The births offer a small but important boost to conservation efforts for a species that few people have ever seen, and which is disappearing fast in the…

IN FOCUS: Vanilla farmers in Madagascar, a country that supplies up to 80 per cent of the global crop each year, face a difficult future as the climate crisis and aid cuts bite, writes Nick Ferris

The African Plant Database lists 65,000 species of flowering plants, ferns and conifers found on the African continent and Madagascar. Since 2006, every plant species ever documented in Africa and Madagascar has been included in the massive online database, with about 200 new species added every year. Cyrille Chatelain is…

26 years after it was established by an all-star women's team, Sasha DiGiulian and Marianna Ordóñez have become the first women to free climb Bravo Les Filles in Madagascar

Researchers think a shipwreck off Madagascar was a Portuguese treasure ship captured by pirates in 1721.

French President Emmanuel Macron and Madagascar’s President Andry Rajoelina will meet in Paris on Monday to discuss the future of the long-disputed Scattered Islands – a chain of uninhabited islets in the Indian Ocean with big geopolitical, ecological and symbolic value.

Baobab trees may be a proxy for measuring long-term use of land by humans. They live long, have economic benefits, and are used as shrines and markers on landscapes. Archaeologists have long suspected an association between baobabs and human settlements. Wolfgang Alders, who researches early urbanism and the first migrations…

In recent years, the term “eldest daughter syndrome” has gained traction on social media, as many firstborn daughters share how they had to grow up faster. They often took on caregiving and supportive roles in their families.