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Madagascar Environmental Degradation
Madagascar is a leader is environmental degradation. Since humans arrived less than 2000 years ago, Madagascar has lost its largest animals including at least 15-17 species of lemurs, a pygmy hippo, enormous tortoises, the the largest bird to ever walk the planet, and a species so unusual it has been assigned to its own order. Today, species loss continues. The IUCN Redlist, the official tally of species at risk of going extinct, currently includes 472 entries for Madagascar though this is probably a significant undercount.
Extinction
Wildlife of Madagascar
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