Toamasina Province

Lion Submarine Cable Enters Service

Orange Madagascar held a ceremony in the capital city Antananarivo announcing the launch of the Lion submarine cable. This follows some six months after the Chamarel cable-laying ship landed the cable at Tamatave (Toamasina) on...

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Clove prices surge on short supplies

Demand in North India high due to onset of winter. Prices in the domestic market have soared to Rs 350 a kg, as around 70 per cent of the country's demand is met by imports. Prices in the domestic market for different origins...

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Gibson Guitar under federal investigation for alleged use of illegal rainforest timber from...

Federal agents from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service raided Gibson Guitar's factory Tuesday afternoon, due to concerns that the company had been using illegally harvested wood from Madagascar, reports the Nashville Post. No...

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Rosewood traffickers busted in Madagascar

Authorities in Madagascar have sacked a local official, arrested several businessmen, and issued fines following the discovery of illegally harvested rosewood logs aboard a ship, reports L'Express de Madagascar. Hery...

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FOKO: Meet The Bloggers

Since January 2009 FOKO, the Rising Voices grantee from Madagascar, has been posting a series of interviews with its bloggers celebrating their first anniversary of blogging. Let us meet through these interviews some of the...

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Blog Action Day 2009: Rising Voices Projects Discuss Climate Change

Today is the Blog Action Day and this annual event aims to unite the world's bloggers where they write about a single topic in a single day to raise awareness and trigger a global discussion on the subject. Some of the members...

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Madagascar precious wood faces ban

Antananarivo - A group of international environmental organisations and universities have called for a boycott of precious wood from Madagascar, saying criminal gangs have been using months of political turmoil to plunder...

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Madagascar's Ravalomanana backs down from Tuesday agreement

Former Madagascan President Marc Ravalomanana backs down from an internationally backed deal reached on Tuesday by saying that he rejects the proposal on the transitional presidency. "We could not legitimate that a sponsor of a...

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Government decree sanctions trafficking of rainforest timber in Madagascar

A new decree by Madagascar's transitional government may fuel continued destruction of the country's tropical forests and biodiversity, warns a statement issued jointly by a dozen leading scientific and conservation groups. The...

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Madagascar: Political Instability Speeds Destruction of a Unique Environment

Political instability in Madagascar is having a serious effect on the already fragile and highly endangered ecology of this island nation. This is of profound concern as Madagascar contains many unique species that are already...

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