Word: madagascar
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...Even without an educated palate, I can tell the difference between a 72% Madagascar and a 72% Venezuelan bean," sniffs Pierrick Chouard, owner of the American subsidiary of Michel Cluizel, a French chocolatier that puts a genealogy of its cocoa beans inside its gift boxes. In the U.S., the Colorado-based Chocolove takes its cue from another prestige consumable and sells a chocolate humidor, a cedar-lined box that protects the candy from the elements. Its president, Timothy Moley, can tell "whether or not the beans were ripe, whether they were fermented and cured properly and how long...
...Africa, the environmental leaders I met with described how desperate shortages of human and financial capital impoverish both their peoples--and their land. The resulting loss of biodiversity, they noted, carries a price for us all. For instance, the rosy periwinkle, a plant native to Madagascar, has proved potent against childhood leukemia. Yet other rare species on this small island nation, most found nowhere else on Earth, are disappearing faster than scientists can catalogue them. The U.S. is working to help developing nations build their economies by preserving, rather than destroying, their natural endowments. But we and other nations must...
...PERRIER'S SIFAKA HOME Madagascar POPULATION 1,000 to 2,000 --Pressured by agriculture, logging and mining for gemstones, it may have vanished from one of two reserves where it is protected...
...GOLDEN BAMBOO LEMUR HOME Madagascar POPULATION about 1,000 --Discovered in 1985 in the island's eastern rain forests, this bamboo eater is threatened by slash-and-burn agriculture around Ranomafana National Park...
...ALAOTRA BAMBOO LEMUR HOME Madagascar POPULATION fewer than 5,000 --Irrigation projects reduce water levels in its habitat on the shores of Madagascar's biggest lake, and local people cut the papyrus and reeds on which it feeds