Center for Conservation Biology, CCB
The CCB (Department of Biological Sciences at Stanford University) conducts scientific and policy research to build a sound basis for the conservation, management, and restoration of Earth’s biotic resources, to evaluate factors that are leading to the “human predicament” (declining environmental security, increasing inequity) and to find practical solutions to that predicament. Its research integrates biological with economic, anthropological, legal, and other social science perspectives.
http://www.stanford.edu/group/CCB


Center for International Earth Science Information Network
Columbia Univesity's Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) works at the intersection of the social, natural, and information sciences. The center specializes in on-line data and information management, spatial data integration and training, and interdisciplinary research related to human interactions in the environment. You will find interesting articales on projects involving Madagascar.
http://www.ciesin.org


Duke University Primate Center
DUPC’s mission is the preservation and study of endangered prosimians through research, education, and conservation. Research mainly includes: captive breeding, nutrition, social organization, biomechanics, genomics, cognitive studies, systematics, physiology, feeding adaptations, and special senses. Conservation includes but is not limited to: (1) The study of wild populations for baseline information; (2) Breeding rare species at Duke and in Madagascar; and (3) Reintroducing rare species to protected areas in Madagascar. The Center also has a commitment to increasing participation in collaborative sustainable development programs in Madagascar.
http://www.baa.duke.edu/


ESSA-Forêts (Water and Forestry Department)
located in Ankatso (University of Antananarivo, Madagascar) is one of the five departments part of the Agronomy School. As an operator or a manager, the Department works in four sites, namely Ambohitantely, in the Central Highlands, Beza Mahafaly in the South, Mandraka and Tampolo in the East. Moreover, the fittings out in Ankatso is not only constituted of offices but it is a complete site with a tree nursery.
http://agro-univ.antananarivo.mg/essa-forets


Foiben-Taosarintanin`i Madagasikara (FTM)
National Geographic & Hydrographic Institute of Madagascar: FTM provides geographic information for Madagascar including public use maps (e.g. road maps, city maps, and the topographic map series) and specialized geographic information products (e.g. environment, tourism, rural development, and city planning).
http://www.dts.mg/ftm/


Institute for the Conservation of Tropical Environments, ICTE
The ICTE was established at the State University of New York at Stony Brook by Dr. Patricia Wright to encourage and promote scientific research, training, and conservation in the tropics. The ICTE coordinates and catalogs the work of over 300 natural and social scientists at Ranomafana National Park and other parts of Madagascar, organizes and conducts biodiversity surveys and ecological assessments of tropical ecosystems, and trains scientists at all levels through field-based courses, collaborations, and academic exchanges.
http://icte.bio.sunysb.edu/


Missouri Botanical Garden
Explore the exotic flora of Madagascar at the Missouri Botanical Garden Web site. Web green thumbs can also view a plethora of photographs, read papers on vegetation and biogeography, and peruse a photo essay on biodiversity and conservation.
http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/Research/


University of Neuchatel
Collaboration between the "Laboratoire de Botanique Evolutive" and the Parc Botanique & Zoologique de Tsimbazaza since 1996.
http://www.unine.ch/bota/ebolab/collaborations/

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