Thecomposition of Madagascar's wildlife reflects the fact that the island has been isolated for about 88 million years. The prehistoric breakup of the supercontinent Gondwana separated the Madagascar-Antarctica-India landmass from the Africa-South America landmass around 135 million years ago. Madagascar later split from India about 88 WithMadagascar’s human population increasing rapidly, there is not enough new land to be cleared and burned for tavy to be sustainable. Charcoal Production. Charcoal is the main source of cooking fuel in Madagascar. Because it is made by burning pieces of wood until only the coal remains, it has a heavy impact on forests. Thehissing cockroach can be found only in Madagascar, and it is one of the biggest cockroach species in the world today. It is so named because of its hissing sound and can be kept as exotic pets. The wild ones are the main dangers. 5. Pinkbacked pelicans bred in Madagascar in the late 1950s and early 1960s, but have only been recorded a few times since. The greater frigatebird is typically found soaring in groups high above the ocean, often in thermals. The globally threatened Humblot's heron is endemic to Madagascar, though it may also breed on the Comoros. Earlierin the Holocene, Madagascar had a number of megafaunal mammals: giant lemurs such as Archaeoindris which at over 200 kg was comparable in mass to the largest Learnabout the unique and endemic species of animals that live only on the island of Madagascar, such as geckos, aye-ayes, fossas, indris and more. See ProposedAcres. 3,867. Project Overview. There is only one place in the world where lemurs can be found—the island of Madagascar—but encroaching agriculture and bushmeat hunting threaten their survival. Located off the southeastern coast of Africa, this refuge is the last place on Earth where these closely knit families of primates exist. ByRotsinomena Andriamisedra, EDGE Fellow 2020 Lemurs can be found nowhere else in the world. Madagascar is the only country in the world where you can find lemurs of every shape and size. One of the lemur species active at night, and among the weird & wonderful EDGE species, is the Aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis). It Madagascars top carnivore. Fossa weigh about 20 pounds and can prey on most of Madagascar’s other species. They are capable hunters on land and in the trees, using their tails for balance and AboutMadagascar's environment, including information about forests and environmental issues. has tremendous biodiversity and high rates of endemic species: of more than 200,000 known species found on Madagascar, more than 80 percent exist nowhere else. the island are over 100 kinds of lemurs, over 300 species of frogs, and QtToW.