A large frog has been discovered in Madagascar\u2019s Domain de la Cascade Plantation Lansargues nature reserve, in the country\u2019s South-East.<\/h4>\nThe three-inch amphibian, named Love\u2019s Giant Stream Frog (after the herpetologist Bill Love, who has contributed greatly to the understanding of Malagasy amphibians), has been confirmed a previously unknown species following DNA analysis.<\/h4>\nThe frogs are nocturnal, and unusually large, and favour slow-moving, clear waters which they spend most of their time sitting in or next to, taking advantage of forest streams\u2019 dense surrounding vegetation for camouflage. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/h4>\nAlthough they have been observed in intact and<\/em> moderately-degraded\u00a0clear forest streams, suggesting a degree of resilience in varying environmental conditions, they have only been found in the Cascade Plantation region, which is renowned for biodiversity, but is also under significant ecological pressure.<\/h4>\nWhile the discovery of\u00a0Love\u2019s Giant Stream\u00a0Frog\u00a0<\/strong>represents a significant advancement in herpetology, it also underscores the fragile state of Madagascar\u2019s forest ecosystems, and points to the fact that the island\u2019s protected and unprotected wilderness regions pay a vital role in safeguarding the unknown, as well as the catalogued, extraordinary Malagasy flora and fauna.<\/h4>\nResearchers responding to the discovery\u2019s announcement called immediately for continued conservation efforts to protect low-elevation rainforest streams from deforestation and habitat fragmentation.<\/h4>\nAnd they did so with good reason.<\/h4>\nMadagascar is home to five per cent of the world\u2019s known species, and of those between 80 and 90 per cent are found only on the island.<\/h4>\nBut it has the world\u2019s fourth-highest rate of deforestation. It has already lost 80 per cent of its natural areas and loses around 200,000ha. each year.\u00a0At the current rate, its forests will be completely gone within 40 years.<\/h4>\nAnd more than 3,900 Malagasy plant and animal species are threatened. The \u2018level\u2019 above \u2018threatened\u2019 is endangered: 600 species of flora and fauna are endangered. The \u2018level\u2019 above that is\u00a0extinct.<\/h4>\nThe world relies upon Madagascar\u2019s forest and wilderness areas. But even if it did not, these areas of extraordinary vibrance and beauty, and all the species within them, have a right to exist, at least as great as our own.<\/h4>\n
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That\u2019s why, even as we work to provide Malagasy communities with the platform to define then challenges which face them, and formulate and deliver the solutions to them, we also ensure they can lift themselves from poverty and hunger in ways which and\/or as well as protecting and expanding the extraordinary Malagasy wilderness, and all it contains.<\/h4>\nFind out more<\/a>\u2026<\/h4>\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Miala tsiny fa tsy mbola misy amin’ny teny malagasy ity lahatsoratra ity. A new frog discovery in Madagascar\u2019s South-East reminds us how resilient, but also how threatened, the Malagasy wilderness is. A large frog has been discovered in Madagascar\u2019s Domain de la Cascade Plantation Lansargues nature reserve, in the country\u2019s South-East. The three-inch amphibian, named Love\u2019s Giant Stream Frog (after the herpetologist Bill Love, who has contributed greatly to the understanding of Malagasy amphibians), has been confirmed a previously unknown species following DNA analysis. The frogs are nocturnal, and unusually large, and favour slow-moving, clear waters which they spend most… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":23080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[270,272,271,235,194,195,234,176,239,236,187,188,289,192,454,168,483,191,193],"tags":[215,179,340,594,115,205,593,595,596],"class_list":["post-23078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate","category-climate-catastrophe","category-climate-change","category-community","category-conservation","category-development","category-environment","category-environmental-news","category-forest","category-livelihoods","category-madagascar","category-malagasy","category-poverty","category-rainforest","category-resilient-forests-and-livelihoods","category-rfl","category-river","category-water","category-wildlife","tag-development","tag-environment","tag-frog","tag-loves-ginat-stream-frog","tag-madagascar","tag-malagasy","tag-new-species","tag-stream-frog","tag-wilderness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23078"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23086,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23078\/revisions\/23086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
The frogs are nocturnal, and unusually large, and favour slow-moving, clear waters which they spend most of their time sitting in or next to, taking advantage of forest streams\u2019 dense surrounding vegetation for camouflage. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/h4>\nAlthough they have been observed in intact and<\/em> moderately-degraded\u00a0clear forest streams, suggesting a degree of resilience in varying environmental conditions, they have only been found in the Cascade Plantation region, which is renowned for biodiversity, but is also under significant ecological pressure.<\/h4>\nWhile the discovery of\u00a0Love\u2019s Giant Stream\u00a0Frog\u00a0<\/strong>represents a significant advancement in herpetology, it also underscores the fragile state of Madagascar\u2019s forest ecosystems, and points to the fact that the island\u2019s protected and unprotected wilderness regions pay a vital role in safeguarding the unknown, as well as the catalogued, extraordinary Malagasy flora and fauna.<\/h4>\nResearchers responding to the discovery\u2019s announcement called immediately for continued conservation efforts to protect low-elevation rainforest streams from deforestation and habitat fragmentation.<\/h4>\nAnd they did so with good reason.<\/h4>\nMadagascar is home to five per cent of the world\u2019s known species, and of those between 80 and 90 per cent are found only on the island.<\/h4>\nBut it has the world\u2019s fourth-highest rate of deforestation. It has already lost 80 per cent of its natural areas and loses around 200,000ha. each year.\u00a0At the current rate, its forests will be completely gone within 40 years.<\/h4>\nAnd more than 3,900 Malagasy plant and animal species are threatened. The \u2018level\u2019 above \u2018threatened\u2019 is endangered: 600 species of flora and fauna are endangered. The \u2018level\u2019 above that is\u00a0extinct.<\/h4>\nThe world relies upon Madagascar\u2019s forest and wilderness areas. But even if it did not, these areas of extraordinary vibrance and beauty, and all the species within them, have a right to exist, at least as great as our own.<\/h4>\n
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That\u2019s why, even as we work to provide Malagasy communities with the platform to define then challenges which face them, and formulate and deliver the solutions to them, we also ensure they can lift themselves from poverty and hunger in ways which and\/or as well as protecting and expanding the extraordinary Malagasy wilderness, and all it contains.<\/h4>\nFind out more<\/a>\u2026<\/h4>\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Miala tsiny fa tsy mbola misy amin’ny teny malagasy ity lahatsoratra ity. A new frog discovery in Madagascar\u2019s South-East reminds us how resilient, but also how threatened, the Malagasy wilderness is. A large frog has been discovered in Madagascar\u2019s Domain de la Cascade Plantation Lansargues nature reserve, in the country\u2019s South-East. The three-inch amphibian, named Love\u2019s Giant Stream Frog (after the herpetologist Bill Love, who has contributed greatly to the understanding of Malagasy amphibians), has been confirmed a previously unknown species following DNA analysis. The frogs are nocturnal, and unusually large, and favour slow-moving, clear waters which they spend most… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":23080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[270,272,271,235,194,195,234,176,239,236,187,188,289,192,454,168,483,191,193],"tags":[215,179,340,594,115,205,593,595,596],"class_list":["post-23078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate","category-climate-catastrophe","category-climate-change","category-community","category-conservation","category-development","category-environment","category-environmental-news","category-forest","category-livelihoods","category-madagascar","category-malagasy","category-poverty","category-rainforest","category-resilient-forests-and-livelihoods","category-rfl","category-river","category-water","category-wildlife","tag-development","tag-environment","tag-frog","tag-loves-ginat-stream-frog","tag-madagascar","tag-malagasy","tag-new-species","tag-stream-frog","tag-wilderness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23078"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23086,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23078\/revisions\/23086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
While the discovery of\u00a0Love\u2019s Giant Stream\u00a0Frog\u00a0<\/strong>represents a significant advancement in herpetology, it also underscores the fragile state of Madagascar\u2019s forest ecosystems, and points to the fact that the island\u2019s protected and unprotected wilderness regions pay a vital role in safeguarding the unknown, as well as the catalogued, extraordinary Malagasy flora and fauna.<\/h4>\nResearchers responding to the discovery\u2019s announcement called immediately for continued conservation efforts to protect low-elevation rainforest streams from deforestation and habitat fragmentation.<\/h4>\nAnd they did so with good reason.<\/h4>\nMadagascar is home to five per cent of the world\u2019s known species, and of those between 80 and 90 per cent are found only on the island.<\/h4>\nBut it has the world\u2019s fourth-highest rate of deforestation. It has already lost 80 per cent of its natural areas and loses around 200,000ha. each year.\u00a0At the current rate, its forests will be completely gone within 40 years.<\/h4>\nAnd more than 3,900 Malagasy plant and animal species are threatened. The \u2018level\u2019 above \u2018threatened\u2019 is endangered: 600 species of flora and fauna are endangered. The \u2018level\u2019 above that is\u00a0extinct.<\/h4>\nThe world relies upon Madagascar\u2019s forest and wilderness areas. But even if it did not, these areas of extraordinary vibrance and beauty, and all the species within them, have a right to exist, at least as great as our own.<\/h4>\n
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That\u2019s why, even as we work to provide Malagasy communities with the platform to define then challenges which face them, and formulate and deliver the solutions to them, we also ensure they can lift themselves from poverty and hunger in ways which and\/or as well as protecting and expanding the extraordinary Malagasy wilderness, and all it contains.<\/h4>\nFind out more<\/a>\u2026<\/h4>\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Miala tsiny fa tsy mbola misy amin’ny teny malagasy ity lahatsoratra ity. A new frog discovery in Madagascar\u2019s South-East reminds us how resilient, but also how threatened, the Malagasy wilderness is. A large frog has been discovered in Madagascar\u2019s Domain de la Cascade Plantation Lansargues nature reserve, in the country\u2019s South-East. The three-inch amphibian, named Love\u2019s Giant Stream Frog (after the herpetologist Bill Love, who has contributed greatly to the understanding of Malagasy amphibians), has been confirmed a previously unknown species following DNA analysis. The frogs are nocturnal, and unusually large, and favour slow-moving, clear waters which they spend most… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":23080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[270,272,271,235,194,195,234,176,239,236,187,188,289,192,454,168,483,191,193],"tags":[215,179,340,594,115,205,593,595,596],"class_list":["post-23078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate","category-climate-catastrophe","category-climate-change","category-community","category-conservation","category-development","category-environment","category-environmental-news","category-forest","category-livelihoods","category-madagascar","category-malagasy","category-poverty","category-rainforest","category-resilient-forests-and-livelihoods","category-rfl","category-river","category-water","category-wildlife","tag-development","tag-environment","tag-frog","tag-loves-ginat-stream-frog","tag-madagascar","tag-malagasy","tag-new-species","tag-stream-frog","tag-wilderness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23078"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23086,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23078\/revisions\/23086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
And they did so with good reason.<\/h4>\nMadagascar is home to five per cent of the world\u2019s known species, and of those between 80 and 90 per cent are found only on the island.<\/h4>\nBut it has the world\u2019s fourth-highest rate of deforestation. It has already lost 80 per cent of its natural areas and loses around 200,000ha. each year.\u00a0At the current rate, its forests will be completely gone within 40 years.<\/h4>\nAnd more than 3,900 Malagasy plant and animal species are threatened. The \u2018level\u2019 above \u2018threatened\u2019 is endangered: 600 species of flora and fauna are endangered. The \u2018level\u2019 above that is\u00a0extinct.<\/h4>\nThe world relies upon Madagascar\u2019s forest and wilderness areas. But even if it did not, these areas of extraordinary vibrance and beauty, and all the species within them, have a right to exist, at least as great as our own.<\/h4>\n
But it has the world\u2019s fourth-highest rate of deforestation. It has already lost 80 per cent of its natural areas and loses around 200,000ha. each year.\u00a0At the current rate, its forests will be completely gone within 40 years.<\/h4>\nAnd more than 3,900 Malagasy plant and animal species are threatened. The \u2018level\u2019 above \u2018threatened\u2019 is endangered: 600 species of flora and fauna are endangered. The \u2018level\u2019 above that is\u00a0extinct.<\/h4>\nThe world relies upon Madagascar\u2019s forest and wilderness areas. But even if it did not, these areas of extraordinary vibrance and beauty, and all the species within them, have a right to exist, at least as great as our own.<\/h4>\n
The world relies upon Madagascar\u2019s forest and wilderness areas. But even if it did not, these areas of extraordinary vibrance and beauty, and all the species within them, have a right to exist, at least as great as our own.<\/h4>\n
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