I didn't expect that about 20% of all plants globally were endemic to islands. I was also surprised that most of these—about 44,000 species—were endemic to a single island only, such as ...

The African Plant Database lists 65,000 species of flowering plants, ferns and conifers found on the African continent and ...

ANDRAMASINA, Madagascar — It’s transplanting season in Andramasina’s rice fields. The town is just 40 kilometers ... it doesn’t plant many native species, at least not yet.

After all, I had swung halfway around the globe to view lemurs in Madagascar, the only place on Earth where the primitive primates are native, live in the wild (112 species at last count), and ...

Somewhere in the faraway Mozambique Channel, on Madagascar’s tiny, roadless, volcanic “Lemur Island,” a tawny-colored, wet-nosed, white-maned, utterly adorable lemur suddenly pounced from a ...

Yes, Madagascar tops the list globally in terms of the percentage of plant species endemic to a single island. This is because, as I’ve said, Madagascar is highly species-rich.

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