UNESCO recognises threats to Madagascar rainforest
Thursday, August 5, 2010 - 03:42
in Biology & Nature
The United Nations' Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has placed the Atsinanana Rainforest in Madagascar on its list of World Heritage in Danger sites because of an ongoing government-influenced illegal logging crisis and continuing lemur bush meat consumption in some of the national parks that are part of the forest...