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Madagascar Dry Forests:
Resources and Links
Related Links | National Geographic Resources |
Recommended by World Wildlife Fund
Lemur Web
thewebclass.com/zelewsky/main.htm
Find out all you ever wanted to know about lemurs. And more.
Madagascar: A World Apart
www.pbs.org/edens/madagascar/
Get facts and features about this island habitat.
Madagascar: Biodiversity and Conservation
ridgwaydb.mobot.org/mobot/madagascar/
drytropical.asp?order=1
Through photographs from an exhibition at the Missouri Botanical Garden, explore the dry tropical forest and the spiny desert of Madagascar.
Satellite Image of Madagascar
earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages
/images.php3?img_id=4731
Witness the devastating loss of 80 percent of Madagascar’s indigenous forests miles above the surface of the Earth.
Science Museum of Minnesota
www.greatestplaces.org/book_pages/madagascar2.htm
Check out games, postcards, and more relating to Madagascar.
The Wilds of Madagascar
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/madagascar
NOVA/PBS visits the lost world of Madagascar through dispatches, resources, and 360° panoramas.
World’s Strangest Predator?
www.nwf.org/internationalwildlife/2000/fossa.html
International Wildlife magazine reveals rare photographs of the enigmatic fossa.
| National Geographic magazine | Flynn, John. “Monsters of Madagascar.” August 2000. |
| National Geographic magazine | Morell, Virginia. “Restoring Madagascar.” April 2000. |
| World magazine | Skelton, Renee. “Creature of the Night.” October 1998. |
| National Geographic magazine | Jolly, Alison. “Madagascar's Lemurs: On the Edge of Survival.” August 1998. |
| Book | In Search of Lemurs: My Days and Nights in a Madagascar Rain Forest. 1998. |
| Book | National Geographic Book of Mammals. 1998. More info |
| Video | Africa: The Wilds of Madagascar. 1988. |
| National Geographic magazine | Jolly, Alison. “Madagascar: A World Apart.” February 1987. |
Recommended by World Wildlife Fund
| Book | Blauer, Ettagale and Jason Laure. Madagascar. Children’s Press, 2000. |
| Book | Bradt, Hilary and Derek Schuurman. Madagascar Wildlife: A Visitor's Guide. Globe Pequot Press, 2001. |
| Book | Brouwer, Sigmund. The Disappearing Jewel of Madagascar. Scripture Press Publishers, 1995. |
| Book | Dennard, Deborah. Lemur Landing: A Story of Madagascar Tropical Dry Forest. Soundprints, 2001. |
| Book | Lasky, Kathryn. Shadows in the Dawn: The Lemurs of Madagascar. Harcourt Brace & Company, 1998. |
| Book | Martin, James. Lemurs and Other Animals of the Madagascar Rain Forest. Capstone Press, 1995. |
| Book | Tyson, Peter and Russell A. Mittermeier. The Eighth Continent: Life, Death, and Discovery in the Lost World of Madagascar. Morrow, William & Co, 2000. |
Photograph of
a fossa by
Chris Hellier/Corbis
