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A new spider genus from Madagascar!
Researchers led by Matjaž Kuntner (National Institute of Biology, Slovenia) have described Osmooka aphana, discovered in the montane forests of Marojejy National Park.
A new spider genus from Madagascar!
Researchers led by Matjaž Kuntner (National Institute of Biology, Slovenia) have described Osmooka aphana, discovered in the montane forests of Marojejy National Park.
December 6, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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A new spider genus from Madagascar!
Researchers led by Matjaž Kuntner (National Institute of Biology, Slovenia) have described Osmooka aphana, discovered in the montane forests of Marojejy National Park.
A new spider genus from Madagascar!
Researchers led by Matjaž Kuntner (National Institute of Biology, Slovenia) have described Osmooka aphana, discovered in the montane forests of Marojejy National Park.
One of the most beautiful lemurs is the Silky Sifaka. They live in the rainforests of northeastern #Madagascar. Marojejy National Park, pictured here, has hut to hut hiking. Hire a simpona tracker to ensure you see silkies, often seen between camps 2 and 3!
📷 Lynne Venart
#lemurs #primates #sifaka
📷 Lynne Venart
#lemurs #primates #sifaka
August 4, 2025 at 11:30 AM
One of the most beautiful lemurs is the Silky Sifaka. They live in the rainforests of northeastern #Madagascar. Marojejy National Park, pictured here, has hut to hut hiking. Hire a simpona tracker to ensure you see silkies, often seen between camps 2 and 3!
📷 Lynne Venart
#lemurs #primates #sifaka
📷 Lynne Venart
#lemurs #primates #sifaka
Almost 40 years old - the brochure for the 1988 trip to Marojejy in Madagascar which we (5 students - later joined by Frank Hawkins & Joanna Durbin) put together to send to various charitable trusts hoping for funds. I think we mailed ~1000 out: we received many generous donations in cash & kind
September 13, 2026 at 7:14 PM
Almost 40 years old - the brochure for the 1988 trip to Marojejy in Madagascar which we (5 students - later joined by Frank Hawkins & Joanna Durbin) put together to send to various charitable trusts hoping for funds. I think we mailed ~1000 out: we received many generous donations in cash & kind
Hey hey! I'm a northern bamboo lemur! I live in Marojejy National Park. I eat bamboo, like a panda. But I ain't no panda.
#primates #lemur #madagascar #endangeredspecies #conservation
📷 Cheryl Antonucci
#primates #lemur #madagascar #endangeredspecies #conservation
📷 Cheryl Antonucci
April 11, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Hey hey! I'm a northern bamboo lemur! I live in Marojejy National Park. I eat bamboo, like a panda. But I ain't no panda.
#primates #lemur #madagascar #endangeredspecies #conservation
📷 Cheryl Antonucci
#primates #lemur #madagascar #endangeredspecies #conservation
📷 Cheryl Antonucci
The Iaraka River leaf chameleon, also commonly known as the mossy pygmy leaf chameleon, is a species of chameleon, a lizard in the family Chamaeleonidae.
IUCN status: Vulnerable
IUCN status: Vulnerable
April 19, 2026 at 9:55 PM
The Iaraka River leaf chameleon, also commonly known as the mossy pygmy leaf chameleon, is a species of chameleon, a lizard in the family Chamaeleonidae.
IUCN status: Vulnerable
IUCN status: Vulnerable
I delivered my 2026 book, MASSIF, last week. An SF adventure about god-like mountain ranges travelling in interstellar space and the humans who go with them, specifically the small crew of a corvette. I have no clue what I was aiming for, maybe a combo of Nicholas Monsarrat & Arthur C. Clarke 😀
March 18, 2025 at 12:29 AM
I delivered my 2026 book, MASSIF, last week. An SF adventure about god-like mountain ranges travelling in interstellar space and the humans who go with them, specifically the small crew of a corvette. I have no clue what I was aiming for, maybe a combo of Nicholas Monsarrat & Arthur C. Clarke 😀
Meet Gephyromantis ampondo—one of four #newspecies of #frog that my colleagues and I described in a paper published this week in the journal Spixiana. We discovered this species in 2016 in Marojejy in the northeast of #Madagascar. Full paper: pfeil-verlag.de/wp-content/u...
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May 2, 2024 at 7:36 AM
Meet Gephyromantis ampondo—one of four #newspecies of #frog that my colleagues and I described in a paper published this week in the journal Spixiana. We discovered this species in 2016 in Marojejy in the northeast of #Madagascar. Full paper: pfeil-verlag.de/wp-content/u...
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Morphological traits of liverworts reveal how habitat filtering and niche differentiation jointly influence species distribution in a tropical rainforest on a mountain in Madagascar.
➡️ doi.org/10.5091/plec...
➡️ doi.org/10.5091/plec...
June 12, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Morphological traits of liverworts reveal how habitat filtering and niche differentiation jointly influence species distribution in a tropical rainforest on a mountain in Madagascar.
➡️ doi.org/10.5091/plec...
➡️ doi.org/10.5091/plec...
Love hiking? Marojejy National Park offers wonderful hut-to-hut hiking. Cabins are built and maintained by the Lemur Conservation Foundation. The views are stunning. See silky sifakas, ring-tailed vontsira, and many more species!
www.lemurconservationnetwork.org/hiking-to-se...
📷 Lynne Venart
www.lemurconservationnetwork.org/hiking-to-se...
📷 Lynne Venart
June 21, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Love hiking? Marojejy National Park offers wonderful hut-to-hut hiking. Cabins are built and maintained by the Lemur Conservation Foundation. The views are stunning. See silky sifakas, ring-tailed vontsira, and many more species!
www.lemurconservationnetwork.org/hiking-to-se...
📷 Lynne Venart
www.lemurconservationnetwork.org/hiking-to-se...
📷 Lynne Venart
YUMMY! CYANIDE LACED BAMBOO, WHAT COULD GO WRONG?
This bamboo #lemur in Marojejy National Park, Madagascar is specially adapted to eat bamboo, even though it's full of cyanide!! 😱
📷 Deb Bradley
This bamboo #lemur in Marojejy National Park, Madagascar is specially adapted to eat bamboo, even though it's full of cyanide!! 😱
📷 Deb Bradley
March 20, 2025 at 12:30 PM
YUMMY! CYANIDE LACED BAMBOO, WHAT COULD GO WRONG?
This bamboo #lemur in Marojejy National Park, Madagascar is specially adapted to eat bamboo, even though it's full of cyanide!! 😱
📷 Deb Bradley
This bamboo #lemur in Marojejy National Park, Madagascar is specially adapted to eat bamboo, even though it's full of cyanide!! 😱
📷 Deb Bradley
Here are the seven of us in Madagascar
September 13, 2026 at 9:30 PM
Here are the seven of us in Madagascar
Marojejy National Park (est. 1998) in northern Madagascar has dense rainforest, cloud forest & the only remaining undisturbed mountain scrub in Madagascar. Several international organizations work together to protect the endangered, rich biodiversity of the region...
December 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Marojejy National Park (est. 1998) in northern Madagascar has dense rainforest, cloud forest & the only remaining undisturbed mountain scrub in Madagascar. Several international organizations work together to protect the endangered, rich biodiversity of the region...
Marojejy NP Camp 2: My start of the week on monday morning :-
April 2, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Marojejy NP Camp 2: My start of the week on monday morning :-
Lovely to return to Marojejy National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in northeastern Madagascar
November 29, 2024 at 8:53 PM
Lovely to return to Marojejy National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in northeastern Madagascar
a surprising relative of the Australian fauna (Araneae: Paraplectanoididae) todayheadline
Madagascar is a biodiversity hotspot with high endemism and ancient phylogenetic diversity. We here report the discovery of Osmooka aphana gen. nov., sp. nov. from Marojejy National Park. Phylogenomic…
Madagascar is a biodiversity hotspot with high endemism and ancient phylogenetic diversity. We here report the discovery of Osmooka aphana gen. nov., sp. nov. from Marojejy National Park. Phylogenomic…
a surprising relative of the Australian fauna (Araneae: Paraplectanoididae) todayheadline
Madagascar is a biodiversity hotspot with high endemism and ancient phylogenetic diversity. We here report the discovery of Osmooka aphana gen. nov., sp. nov. from Marojejy National Park. Phylogenomic analyses place Osmooka as sister to the Australian Paraplectanoides Keyserling, 1886 and this doublet is sister to Nephilidae Simon, 1894. When proposed, Paraplectanoididae Kuntner, Coddington, Agnarsson & Bond, 2023 was exclusively Australian and monogeneric, but was predicted to contain additional, undescribed taxa.
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December 8, 2025 at 3:09 PM
a surprising relative of the Australian fauna (Araneae: Paraplectanoididae) todayheadline
Madagascar is a biodiversity hotspot with high endemism and ancient phylogenetic diversity. We here report the discovery of Osmooka aphana gen. nov., sp. nov. from Marojejy National Park. Phylogenomic…
Madagascar is a biodiversity hotspot with high endemism and ancient phylogenetic diversity. We here report the discovery of Osmooka aphana gen. nov., sp. nov. from Marojejy National Park. Phylogenomic…
IT'S SO #FUZZY!!
What a claim. To be the "rarest mammal on earth."
I thought that was me but whatever I guess..... 🤣
Seriously, we're losing so many #species everyday due to the society we've built. We need something better. Now.
🌎📌🌲👉 hawki.app 👈🌳📍🧪
#hawki #nature #biodiversity #climatechange
What a claim. To be the "rarest mammal on earth."
I thought that was me but whatever I guess..... 🤣
Seriously, we're losing so many #species everyday due to the society we've built. We need something better. Now.
🌎📌🌲👉 hawki.app 👈🌳📍🧪
#hawki #nature #biodiversity #climatechange
September 10, 2026 at 3:18 PM
IT'S SO #FUZZY!!
What a claim. To be the "rarest mammal on earth."
I thought that was me but whatever I guess..... 🤣
Seriously, we're losing so many #species everyday due to the society we've built. We need something better. Now.
🌎📌🌲👉 hawki.app 👈🌳📍🧪
#hawki #nature #biodiversity #climatechange
What a claim. To be the "rarest mammal on earth."
I thought that was me but whatever I guess..... 🤣
Seriously, we're losing so many #species everyday due to the society we've built. We need something better. Now.
🌎📌🌲👉 hawki.app 👈🌳📍🧪
#hawki #nature #biodiversity #climatechange
4/5 Training near Marojejy offers masonry, enterprise and fish-farming skills. Graduates and fish farmers still need support.
UNESCO, 2026-09-14
www.unesco.org/en/articles/...
UNESCO, 2026-09-14
www.unesco.org/en/articles/...
September 21, 2026 at 8:55 AM
4/5 Training near Marojejy offers masonry, enterprise and fish-farming skills. Graduates and fish farmers still need support.
UNESCO, 2026-09-14
www.unesco.org/en/articles/...
UNESCO, 2026-09-14
www.unesco.org/en/articles/...
Last blast from the past: 23/9/88: Marojejy SNR in Madagascar. Notes on what became clear was 1st record Madagascar Serpent Eagle for 58 yrs, found during Cambridge-led 3 mth survey of birds, mammals & reptiles. No prizes for artwork! How digital cameras have transformed records
November 23, 2024 at 3:16 PM
Last blast from the past: 23/9/88: Marojejy SNR in Madagascar. Notes on what became clear was 1st record Madagascar Serpent Eagle for 58 yrs, found during Cambridge-led 3 mth survey of birds, mammals & reptiles. No prizes for artwork! How digital cameras have transformed records
Laurel forests on #Tenerife remind me of the high altitude cloud forest of #Marojejy national park in our @Diversity_Turn study region in #Madagascar
@BioGeoMacro botanical and biogeographical excursion
@BioGeoMacro botanical and biogeographical excursion
April 2, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Laurel forests on #Tenerife remind me of the high altitude cloud forest of #Marojejy national park in our @Diversity_Turn study region in #Madagascar
@BioGeoMacro botanical and biogeographical excursion
@BioGeoMacro botanical and biogeographical excursion
Sound recording in a @Diversity_Turn plot in #Marojejy National Park
First results show that the primary forest is much more species rich than the landscape outside!
#ecoacoustics #SOLO #Madagascar #phdchat
First results show that the primary forest is much more species rich than the landscape outside!
#ecoacoustics #SOLO #Madagascar #phdchat
April 2, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Sound recording in a @Diversity_Turn plot in #Marojejy National Park
First results show that the primary forest is much more species rich than the landscape outside!
#ecoacoustics #SOLO #Madagascar #phdchat
First results show that the primary forest is much more species rich than the landscape outside!
#ecoacoustics #SOLO #Madagascar #phdchat
Nice find unusually far south!
We also found Helmet Vanga's in our @Diversity_Turn plots in #Marojejy NP, NE #Madagascar. A stunning bird!
#ornithology #birding #VangasRock
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We also found Helmet Vanga's in our @Diversity_Turn plots in #Marojejy NP, NE #Madagascar. A stunning bird!
#ornithology #birding #VangasRock
x.com/Madabirds/stat…
April 2, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Nice find unusually far south!
We also found Helmet Vanga's in our @Diversity_Turn plots in #Marojejy NP, NE #Madagascar. A stunning bird!
#ornithology #birding #VangasRock
x.com/Madabirds/stat…
We also found Helmet Vanga's in our @Diversity_Turn plots in #Marojejy NP, NE #Madagascar. A stunning bird!
#ornithology #birding #VangasRock
x.com/Madabirds/stat…
Great memories of our @Diversity_Turn #fieldwork at #Marojejy NP, already three weeks ago!
#herpetology #ornithology #ecology #PhD
#herpetology #ornithology #ecology #PhD
April 2, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Great memories of our @Diversity_Turn #fieldwork at #Marojejy NP, already three weeks ago!
#herpetology #ornithology #ecology #PhD
#herpetology #ornithology #ecology #PhD
Which frog is it?
@Diversity_Turn PhD student @ThioRosin and his supervisor @FanoRatsoavina identifying tricky herps in #Marojejy NP
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#fieldwork #herpetology #Madagascar
@Diversity_Turn PhD student @ThioRosin and his supervisor @FanoRatsoavina identifying tricky herps in #Marojejy NP
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#fieldwork #herpetology #Madagascar
April 2, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Which frog is it?
@Diversity_Turn PhD student @ThioRosin and his supervisor @FanoRatsoavina identifying tricky herps in #Marojejy NP
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#fieldwork #herpetology #Madagascar
@Diversity_Turn PhD student @ThioRosin and his supervisor @FanoRatsoavina identifying tricky herps in #Marojejy NP
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#fieldwork #herpetology #Madagascar
Amazing leaf mimicry of this butterfly at #Marojejy NP, #Madagascar
April 2, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Amazing leaf mimicry of this butterfly at #Marojejy NP, #Madagascar
Lowland rainforest is a highly threatened habitat in #Madagascar
#Marojejy NP suffers mainly from selective logging for precious woods.
#Marojejy NP suffers mainly from selective logging for precious woods.
April 2, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Lowland rainforest is a highly threatened habitat in #Madagascar
#Marojejy NP suffers mainly from selective logging for precious woods.
#Marojejy NP suffers mainly from selective logging for precious woods.