News & Blog – December 2012

Bewitching Baobabs

Posted on by Richard Jenkins

In the second instalment of our ‘Remarkable Trees’ blog series, Richard Jenkins from IUCN shares his fascination with Madagascar’s iconic baobabs… The baobabs of Madagascar are arguably the world’s most enigmatic trees. Found in the dry southern and western parts of the island, their wide trunks and stubby branches protrude out of the Malagasy soil like great, swollen limbs.…