ANTANANARIVO, Oct 3 (Reuters) – Madagascar’s cash-strapped government has opened the door for criminal syndicates to plunder the Indian Ocean island’s precious natural resources, conservation groups said on 3 October 2009.

The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Conservation International and Wild life Conservation Society said an inter-ministerial order issued last month granted an exceptional authorisation to export raw and semi-processed hard wood.

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