“We are coming tonight,” they would write in a note pushed under doors in this remote coastal village in Madagascar. But environmental defenders say they highlight how the surging price of vanilla on global markets is connected to village crime and forest destruction. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Freshly cut logs in the protected Masoala national park where land is being cleared to grow vanilla. In one area just inside the park boundary sign, a small clearing has been opened for the cultivation of vanilla. Facebook Twitter Pinterest A clearing is cut in the Masoala forest for vanilla cultivation.

Source: The Guardian March 31, 2018 06:22 UTC