Madagascar has lost the vast majority of its forests, mostly to slash-and-burn farming, and with it much of its biodiversity.
The park, which was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1994, is known for its biodiversity, and it is the habitat for various threatened bird species.
If it's biodiversity conservation, state it here.
The deep pelagic ocean is the largest habitat by volume on Earth, yet it remains biodiversity's big wet secret, as it is hugely under-represented in global databases of marine biological records.
But while flavour may make many revived foods desirable, when it comes to breeds of plant and animal, it is biodiversity that makes them invaluable.
Already the government is developing the market for trading wildlife, by experimenting with what it calls biodiversity offsets.
It kills biodiversity and erodes the soil," he says, pointing up to the cap of rich green forest crowning the highest peaks.
This perspective is characterized as "post-positivist" because it recognizes biodiversity as inevitably value-laden — there is no one, correct, measure of biodiversity to be discovered but many, each having different values.
