Travel with Janice Swab to the world's fourth largest island, so different from other world land masses that it has been called the Eighth Continent.
Travel with Janice Swab to the world's fourth largest island, so different from other world land masses that it has been called the Eighth Continent.
Baobab: Bottle trees, nicknamed well because they contain a large amount of water, thousands of liters. Typical of western Madagascar.
Bush: dense vegetation consisting of plants and thorny shrubs, characterizing the semi-arid South of Madagascar or elsewhere.
Endemic: species specific to a geographical area and found nowhere else in the world. It can be said that Madagascar has a rate of endemism of around 80 or even 90%, one of the highest on the planet.