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Saving Madagascar One Tree at a Time

As I read through some of the regions around the world and searched the Internet for information I kept going back to Madagascar. There was something about the beauty that had me drawn to it. The land is so free and luxurious with rich trees and plants that seem to jump off the pages as I browsed each picture I had saw as. I read through for information about the people, the culture, the land, the government, I discovered there was destruction that was slowly destroying the hills that flourished with trees, animals, flowers, insects, and reptiles.

Trouble in paradise was effecting our world as we know it today. Everyday another tree is being cut down for farming, housing, growing coffee, for producing rubber and for timber (MT/PK Productions). Products we use everyday are coming from rain forest. Spices we use to have our food taste better, the Starbucks where we pay $4.00 a cup, the glue that holds the family together (play on words there, but you get the idea). These products are produced and harvested from rain forest.
The rain forest is not the only destruction that this region faces. Soil erosion, desertification along with other waste that is erupting in this county, is destroying sub-Saharan of Africa. Is there something we can do to preserve Madagascar, to perverse other providences, other countries? Yes, there is one tree at time, one field at a time and one species at a time.
Just what is happening to these countries, to the people and what effects is it having on the world and we the people? As I research more and become more involved in the study the more I realize we need to act, we all need to act. In these countries where the destruction is happening at rate of 6000 acres every hour, dung beetles are near extinction among other species (Butler 2007). What happens when these creatures are completely wiped off the planet? The dung beetle for example actually eats the feces from the other animals in the forest, thus keeping the forest cleaner should we say.
The beetle is not the only species in the forest dying off. Lemurs are beginning to disappear, which feed the dung beetle as Lemurs have the largest amount of droppings in the forest. Out of approximately fifty-one different documented species, twenty-two have been reported as missing. To do the math that leaves twenty-one species' left to roam the forest, left to roam Madagascar, left to roam the earth.
Biodiversity is still thriving in

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