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Conservation issues

Roadside charcoal
Roadside charcoal
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Old, slow-growing trees of Madagascar's dry forest and spiny desert are being made into charcoal and sold to townspeople for cooking rice. Backbreaking work for $1 per bag, it is the only way for many people in this region to earn cash.

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Contents:
1.Large moth
2.Plateau village
3.Brickmaking
4.Clearing primary rainforest
5.Disappearing forest
6.Rainforest disappearance map
7.Air view of erosion
8.Red river (Betsiboka)
9.Roadside charcoal
10.Cissus takeover
11.Mananara River gallery forest
12.Poles from Ankarana
13.Galapagos tortoise
14.Reserves and vegetation map
15.Ranomafana entrance station
16.Masoala view
17.Black and White Ruffed Lemur
18.Black and White
Ruffed Lemur call

19.Madagascar Periwinkle
 
Golden Mantella, Mantella aurantiaca

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