Biodiversity and Endemism

Biodiversity and endemism, a small clarification is required as the main reasons that world travelers want to visit Madagascar to discover its unique flora and fauna. Biodiversity reveals the natural diversity of the living organisms in the world. Madagascar is home to 2percent of the global diversity. This is a huge bank of genes. That…

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Trip advisor reviews on Cactus Tours Madadagascar

Trip advisor recommendation on Cactus Tours

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A featured video on the Tsingy de Bemaraha and Baobab Avenue

A featured video of the Western Baobab safari

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Vanilla Islands: first official meeting in Reunion

The very first official meeting of the Vanilla Islands countries, after this concept has become a full-fledged organization, will take place in La Reunion Island from 22 to 23 August. The first Chairman of “Vanilla Islands” is the Minister of Tourism and Culture of the Seychelles – starting with a budget around 300.000 Euro for…

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Madagascar Extraordinary Landscapes

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Less delays with Air Madagascar’s flights

  The Malagasy national airline company has encountered a serious disturbance in its schedule for all its internal flights. Many travelers were complaining during the first semester because of the frequent delays and some even missed their connecting flights.   For the second semester, a real improvement has been observed. Delays became rare. A better…

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Nosy Be differently

Discover Nosy Be differently.  Few weeks after his election at the head of the Regional Tourism Board of Nosy Be, Andrea AIolfi has started to implement his promotion plan for his erea. A 65-km bicycle rallye was organized on 20th November for locals and for tourists. Known as a beach destination, Nosy Be is a…

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Air Madagascar acquired a new Boeing 777-200

Air Madagascar has acquired a new Boeing 777-200 chartered from the EuroAtlantic Airways in July. Being baned to fly to the European sky since early this year, the international connecting flight of Madagascar is assured by its code-sharing with Air France. The arrival of this aircraft will give some new breaths to the National company…

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Medicinal plants of Madagascar are threatened to extinction

80 percent of the plants of Madagascar are endemic – which means found nowhere else but only here. More than 75% of the Malagasy people use more or less regularly the traditional medicine due to the richness of the local medicinal plants. But this will no longer be possible in the future as these unique…

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Biodiversity: conservation & development

The Conservation Internationa (CI) has adopted a new strategie since 2010. Some development projects have been implemented withthe local communities associations to assure the preservation the protected areas by reducing the pressure on the forest resources. This program, called NODE, funds some revenue generating activities through NGOs. As an example, the local communities succeded to…

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