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Dyan Machan

Travel and business journalist Dyan Machan has worked for Smart Money, Forbes and other publications.

Stories from Dyan Machan

In the midst of fire- and drought-ravaged savanna in southeastern Madagascar, a curiously lush green forest is home to myriad unexpected life-forms, including a species of mouse lemur.

Into the Forbidden Forest

Famed American biologist Patricia Wright explores an astonishing breadth of biodiversity in the wilderness of Madagascar