An invasive guava is muscling out Madagascar’s forests — and lemurs are helping

Mongabay
Mar 31, 2026, 2:44 pm87 ptsTrending
Madagascar is renowned for its lemurs, which are threatened due to hunting and deforestation. Restoring native forests to ensure their survival is critical, but once damaged, forests in Madagascar are vulnerable to takeover by invasive guava trees — whose seeds the lemurs themselves are helping to spread.…

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