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...Madagascar A BLOODY CRACKDOWN Police killed more than 25 protesters on Feb. 7 in Antananarivo, the capital, when they fired into a crowd that was demanding the ouster of President Marc Ravolomanana. The episode came a week after Antananarivo's mayor and media entrepreneur, Andry Rajoelina, proclaimed himself the country's new ruler and began hosting daily rallies to deride the nation's "millionaire dictator." Ravolomanana later blamed the rallies for inciting the crowd and declared that he had removed the mayor from his post, though Rajoelina has refused to leave office...
...pictures of Madagascar's remarkable flora and fauna...
...same logic applies to video games. The game Renaissance 2 costs six times the price of seeing the movie Madagascar 2, but games are actually cheaper if you measure their cost by the hour. If we say that movies cost $10, and assume that the typical movie lasts 2 hours, then a moviegoer spends $5 per hour of entertainment. Most games last much longer. A triple-A video game title like Fallout 3, for instance, is priced at $60, but reviews have claimed anywhere between 50 and 100 hours of playtime. Even using the conservative estimate of 20 hours...
...biofuel plantations so valuable, that means "rain forests are worth more dead than alive," says Andrew Mitchell, director of the Global Canopy Programme, an alliance of forestry institutions. But a handful of pilot projects, like the one in Noel Kempff and others in nations such as Belize, Indonesia and Madagascar, are proving the logic of paying to keep forests standing. Supporters are confident that when the world meets for the annual U.N. summit on climate change in Poznan, Poland, this month, avoided deforestation will be one of the main topics of discussion. "This is too important not to be front...
...latest bid to combat rising food costs and economic uncertainty, South Korean natural-resource-development company Daewoo Logistics said on Nov. 19 that it signed a 99-year lease to farm oil palms and corn on more than 2.5 million acres of land in Madagascar. A Madagascar land minister refuted the claim, however, saying the agreement allowed Daewoo only the right to search for about 250,000 acres of arable farmland. Other countries being scouted...