“Madagascar Wanderings” – Other Worldly

Bizarre in many ways is one way to describe the World’s 4th largest island whose 70 million years of isolation unleashed Mother Nature creating a Biodiversity Hotspot. Located in the Indian Ocean only 250 miles off Africa’s east coast Madagascar was one of the last places on earth settled by humans who came from Borneo. At over 1,000 miles long and 350 miles wide Madagascar has many diverse ecosystems ranging from deserts to rainforests, from 9,000 foot mountains or the razor sharp Tsingy limestone formations to savannah grasslands to deep river valleys and coastal plains. This combination of isolation and dramatically diverse ecologies set the stage for a land with incredibly unique, even bizarre Flora and Fauna as over 90% of the wildlife found in Madagascar are found no-where else on the planet. Many of these unique ecosystems have their own very specially evolved creatures; from world’s smallest and largest Chameleons to the world’s largest moth or the tiny and very strange Giraffe-necked Weevil or 103 very different Lemur species and the 900 different reptile and frog species. Madagascar is truly a Nature Lover’s Paradise and a Wildlife Photographer’s Dream.

Intro / Background

“Wildlife Wanderings” by Bill & Linda Klipp

With Key West as home base Bill & Linda Klipp are living their dream as free-lance Wildlife Photographers “Wandering” the planet’s most remote and exotic locations to see Mother Nature unleashed first-hand. They left their successful corporate lives behind 20 years ago embarking on a second life to pursue their life-long interests in exotic travel and the study of nature and wildlife. As internationally recognized Wildlife Photographers they hope to create compelling images to promote an appreciation of the Natural World to help safeguard the biodiversity of the planet and the integrity of its natural ecosystems. Through their images you can join Bill & Linda in their “Wanderings” which will take you from the ice floes at the top of the planet to the ice shelves of Antarctica and the many places in-between such as Alaska, Africa, Madagascar, Baja, Galapagos, Amazon and Australia to name a few.

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