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Nurturing green employment in Madagascar for people, plants and prosimians Chris Birkinshaw and Fidisoa Ratovoson June 2022 The Ankarabolava-Agnakatrika Forest, in a forgotten corner of south-eastern Madagascar, whether viewed on the ground or in google earth, is a sad sight: tatty fragments of forest in a landscape otherwise denuded of all natural vegetation.  Not the […]

RAPPORT DE FORMATION DES REPRESENTANTS DES MPANJAKA (ROI) DES TROIS COMMUNES QUI ENTOURENT LE NAP ANKARABOLAVA-AGNAKATRIKA DU 04/02/2020 AU 09/02/2020 JAONASY MAËL FRANGIÇO I. INTRODUCTIONDepuis quelques années à cause de la perte inconsidérable des forêts que Madagascar fait face, des ONG ont oeuvré pour chercher toutes types de forêt en fin de sauver les richesse fauniques et

STATUS OF THREE THREATENED LEMUR SPECIES AT THE ANALAVELONA SCARED FOREST, SOUTH- WESTERN MADAGASCAR JAONASY MAËL FRANGIÇO & CHRIS BIRKINSHAWJanuary 2021 Fig. 1. Propithecus verreauxi (Verreaux’s Sifaka) at Analavelona Fig. 2. Lemur catta (Ring-tailed Lemur) at Analavelona Fig. 3. Eulemur rufifrons (Red-fronted Brown Lemur) at Analavelona The Analavelona Forest (4487 ha), Sakaraha is a very

Using community patrols to control extra pressures on timber resources at two New Malagasy protected areas.

No trees = no lemurs Forest restoration for the White Collared Lemur at Ankarabolava-Agnakatrika, Madagascar Missouri Botanical Garden: the clue is in the name really!  We love plants – everything about them: we love unpicking their evolutionary relationships, we love to describe how they mould themselves to their environments, we love discovering how best to

GRANT AWARD We are pleased to announce that Missouri Botanical Garden’s Madagascar Research and Conservation Program has received a grant from IUCN Save Our Species for a project titled “Mobilizing local youth to conserve Eulemur cinereiceps at the Ankarabolava-Agnakatrika Forest, Madagascar”.  This 2-year project is summarised below. Eulemur cinereiceps photo by Ludovic Reza The White

Reducing lemur hunting in the Analavelona Sacred Forest, SW Madagascar by Chris Birkinshaw – April 2020 Whisper it quietly, but Missouri Botanical Garden’s Madagascar Conservation Program is investing in lemur conservation. Currently the Program supports community-based conservation work at 11 Priority Areas for Plant Conservation in Madagascar. Unsurprisingly, in addition to their remarkable floras, all but

Un outil incroyablement complet Pl@ntNet se présente sous deux formes : un site web accessible à l’adresse www.plantnet.org et une application disponible sur le Play Store et l’Apple Store. Extrêmement polyvalente, l’application s’adapte aussi bien à un usage personnel (jardinage, balades, phytothérapie) qu’à un usage professionnel (agroécologie, gestion d’espaces naturels, éducation, tourisme, commerce). Le développement