Marvels and Madness of Madagascar - Amazing Documentary Film

Madagascar, formally the Republic of Madagascar; French: Republique de Madagascar and formerly known as the Malagasy Republic, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of Southeast Africa. The nation makes up the island of Madagascar (the fourth-largest island in the world), as well as many smaller peripheral islands.
Initial human settlement of Madagascar happened between 350 BC and AD 550 by Austronesian expert showing up on outrigger canoes from Borneo. Various other teams continued to settle on Madagascar over time, each one making long lasting payments to Malagasy cultural life.
Madagascar is the world's primary provider of vanilla, cloves and ylang-ylang. Key mineral sources include numerous types of semi-precious and valuable rocks, and Madagascar presently provides half of the world's supply of sapphires, which were discovered near Ilakaka in the late 1990s.
The island likewise holds one of the world's biggest reserves of ilmenite (titanium ore), as well as vital reserves of chromite, coal, iron, cobalt, copper and nickel.Several major projects are underway in the mining, gas and oil sectors that are expected to offer a considerable improvement to the Malagasy economy.