The fascinating island of Madagascar
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Madagascar is the world’s fourth big island. It is located in the Indian Ocean and has a surface a little bigger than France.
Madagascar formed through splitting from Gondwana 160 millions year ago, and then splitting from India(80 millions years ago). Due to its isolation many species of plants and animals from Madagascar can only be met on this islands ( e.g. the lemur monkies). Unfortunately, within last decades in Madagascar appeared environmental problems, which led to diminishing and extinction of some endangered species.
The population of Madagascar came from three different directions:
-from Africa, a black bantu population, which is today almost a half of the population
-from Asia and Oceania an austronesian population, is today also a half of the population, and the Merina, an asian originar tribe, is the chief here in Madagascar
-from Europe, mainly from France, but the descendants of this population are to neglect as number.
