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Madagascar Rainforests

Also Known As Madagascar Humid Forests

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The Madagascar lowland forests, also called the Madagascar humid forests, cover roughly 112,000 square kilometers along the island's eastern coast. Between 80 and 90 percent of their plant and animal life is found nowhere else on Earth, concentrated especially in the forests of the eastern plain, and the ecoregion is listed among the Global 200 outstanding ecoregions.

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112,100 1
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Indri, Species
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The Madagascar lowland forests or Madagascar humid forests are a tropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion found on the eastern coast of the island of Madagascar, home to a plant and animal mix that is 80 to 90% endemic, with the forests of the eastern plain being a particularly important location of this endemism.
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lowland and montane forests along the eastern coast of Madagascar
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