Kew Madagascar Conservation Centre Biodiversity

Madagascar is renowned for its exceptional biodiversity, with extraordinary levels of species diversity and endemism, 84% are endemic to the island, and homes five endemic families (Asteropeiaceae, Barbuaceae, Physenaceae, Sarcolaenaceae and Sphaerosepalaceae).

From 2000 until now, the number of new species keeps increasing but the inventory, description, and documentation of the Malagasy flora are still far from complete. In this way, Kew Madagascar Conservation Centre Biodiversity focusses to work with other researchers and local people in different areas in Madagascar where the biodiversity and a certain number of species disappear before being known because of the loss of their habitat with very significant speed.