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No other country in the world has generated as much recent interest from conservation and development agencies as Madagascar. The island has few equals in terms of a people with a unique culture and a rich, diverse bio-resource on the one hand and extreme poverty and rapid environmental destruction on the other. Among the flora, endemism at the species level may be as high as 86%, and among the fauna, several groups rise to nearly 100%, e.g. mammals (except bats), reptiles and amphibians (IUCN/UNEP/WWF, 1987). But there is probably less than a fifth of the native woody plant cover remaining (Harcourt and Thorn-back, 1990), severe soil degradation is evident on three-quarters of the land surface (Le Bourdiec, 1972) and annual human population growth is higher than 3% (Kent and Haub, 1989).
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Durrell, L., Rakotonindrina, R., Reid, D., Durbin, J. (1994). The recovery of the angonoka (Geochelone yniphora) — an integrated approach to species conservation. In: Olney, P.J.S., Mace, G.M., Feistner, A.T.C. (eds) Creative Conservation. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0721-1_21
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