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Whereas 26 other countries including Sri Lanka, Albania and Madagascar have made emergency contraception available without prescription years ago, the U.S. government continues to put politics ahead of women’s health. The FDA should take politics out of science and rescind its decision...
...Like Madagascar's rain forests, the country's National Forest Seed Bank (SNGF) in Antananarivo looks to be losing the battle against human encroachment. Engulfed by the capital's urban sprawl, the SNGF's small, scruffy patch of land has row upon row of seedlings, some of them species facing extinction in the wild. They seem too delicate to make it through the furious tropical storms common in the island's November-to-April rainy season. But SNGF director Guy Rakotondranony insists they will survive - they have to. The seedlings are "our hope for the future," he says, "our ecological...
...project boasts such high-tech features as light-sensitive roof foil that maintains high temperature and humidity, a waterfall and man-made rain from sprinklers pouring up to 80,000 liters of water a day. Some 17,000 species of plants and 2,500 trees were brought in from Madagascar...
...less. But the city's zoo on Zurichbergstrasse is a tropical jungle all year round. The 10,000-sq-m greenhouse is one of the world's largest man-made rain forests: its humidity and temperature faithfully re-create the climate and ecosystem of the endangered rain forest on Madagascar's Masoala Peninsula...
...Spotting a lemur-an endangered primate indigenous to Madagascar-is a matter of luck; you have a better chance of seeing one in the morning before they retreat to an island built on an artificial lake. After all, as in any jungle, the idea is to try to see the animals in their natural habitat, rather than their cages. But even if you don't get to see the elusive lemur, you may encounter one of over 100 other animals living among the lush vegetation, such as the grey mouse maki, the aye-aye, the tree boa or the girdled...