The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Endangered Species. WWF UK - for a living planet. The Bat by Theodore Roethke at Old Poetry. Conservation in Madagascar. Madagascar has suffered environmental degradation over a significant part of its land mass.
Forests that once blanketed the eastern third of the island have now been degraded, fragmented, and converted to scrub land. Spiny forests in the south are rapidly giving way to "cactus scrub" as indigenous vegetation is cut and burned for subsistence charcoal production. Butterfly Conservation. Conservation. Print page 18 May 2011 The Bird Conservation Targeting Project has been developed to target management and resources towards important sites for scarce and declining farmland and woodland birds.
Records are brought together from a wide range of sources, including individual birdwatchers, county bird clubs and national surveys.