Madagascar is a leading biodiversity hotspot with over 80% of its flora and fauna being found nowhere else on earth due to its split from the African continent 135 million years ago. This split has produced a truly unique landscape across the island, where a vast array of unique ecosystems support the rich biodiversity on the island. One of the most threatened within these is the littoral forests. The littoral forest habitat supports 13% of the native Madagascan flora, however due to an increased human presence and unsustainable land-use practices 90% of the of the littoral forest is thought to have been lost, with the remaining 10% of it found in forest parcels, which fragmented nature causes a degradation in the biodiversity of the forest fragments.