Word: ranomafana
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...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...
...Madagascar is home to a stunning array of animal, plant and fish species, most found nowhere else in the world. Under intense pressure from a burgeoning population, the island is already largely deforested. But conservationists and government officials, making personal visits to more than 100 villages surrounding the Ranomafana primal rain forest, have taught indigenous people about the region's genetic diversity and shown them ways to survive without plundering the forest. Ranomafana is soon to be named a national park...
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