#spinyforest

7. Mikea Forest, Southwest Madagascar

Mikea Forest. The spiny forest of southwest Madagascar — an ecosystem that exists nowhere else on earth. Every plant here evolved alone, in isolation, into something the rest of the world never imagined.

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Earth Bit Lab — Madagascar Series: The Island The World Left Behind**

Most people know Madagascar for its lemurs. Almost no one knows about the rest.

A stone forest too sharp to walk through. A crater lake where every tree leans inward. White dunes meeting ancient coral reefs in the middle of nowhere.

These are the places Madagascar kept entirely for itself.