Jungle Jenny is "Mad" About Madagascar

According to Georgina Kenyon, who has been writing about science and conservation for over ten years – online, print and for NGOs and a UN agency – “Madagascar NGO Madagasikara Voakajy (MV) and Fauna & Flora International (FFI) are working with Malagasy ‘tree monitors’ to protect the endangered Grandidier’s baobab in the western Menabe region, in [...]

According to WildMadagascar.Org (10/10/2010) Researchers have identified a previously unknown species of carnivore lurking in one of the world’s most endangered lakes.  Durrell’s vontsirea (Salanoia durrelli), named in honor of the late conservationist and writer Gerald Durrell, was first photographed swimming in Madagascar’s Lake Alaotra in 2004.  Subsequent surveys by scientist at the Durrell Wildlife [...]

After reading this article, as well as articles about the lionfish in the caribbean, I have come to the conclusion that aquarium fish should not be imported to any country if the species is not indiginous to the area. These invasive species have no natural predators and often decimate existing fish populations. Not trying to [...]

Madagascar is unique. It is home to some of the world’s oldest species that exist no where else in the world. But humanity’s encroachment on this island ark has pushing most of the species to the edge of extinction. Watch an this award winning documentary on LEMURS and see what work is being done to [...]

These Incredible Species are SEVERELY Endangered Due To Poaching For Food, The Pet Trade and Habitat Loss. Radiated Tortoise Are One of the World’s Oldest Species That Only Exist in Madagascar and Resides Mostly in the Spiny Forest.  Unfortunately, The Spiny Forest is almost Gone……

You never know what you will find in the Madagascar Forest!  That is why it is so important to Protect it!

I was sooo happy to see this ban reinstated last week on Rosewood logging and exports in Madagascar! Can you imagine….illegal logging of its NATIONAL PARKS! Unfortuantely, over 20,000 acres of Madagascar’s rainforests were affected, including Marojejy, Masoala and Makira national parks which are some of the island’s most biologically diverse rainforests. Andrea Johnson of [...]

The Sandworms of Dune?  Giant Earth Worms? Amazingly enough, they’re blind snakes from Madagascar!  Click on photo below to read this fascinating article. These Snakes Working Old Ground

……………………………………………………………… Ker Than for National Geographic News Published this article on January 20, 2010. Only in the movies could a lion, a zebra, a giraffe, and a hippo wash ashore on Madagascar to start a new life. But a new computer model suggests there may be a grain of truth in the animated fiction: The [...]

Jungle Jenny is absolutely MAD about this story! Last week, Andry Rojoelina (the President of Madagascar), who seized power during the military coup last March, release a decree that allows the export of rosewood logs harvested from the island’s NATIONAL PARKS!! To read this article by Rhett Butler (click here).  Rhett is the founder and [...]