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No trees no lemurs

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 […]

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Grant-award-for-forest-restoration

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

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Reducing lemur hunting at the Analavelona Sacred Forest

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

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Découverte de Pl@ntNet

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

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