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 obvious location for a conservation project.  But, degraded as it may be, this forest vestige is also home, sometimes the only home, for a long and growing list of threatened plants and animals: 32 and six

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 floristiques de l’ile que le monde considère comme l’un de pays hotspot dans le monde. La formations de représentants des population locaux pour être le sensibilisateur dans leur villageest l’un de façons de facilité et de bien

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 rare example of evergreen western forest (Moat and Smith, 2007). This sub-humid vegetation exists here in the sub-arid SW of Madagascar due to the forest’s location on a modest massif that has an orographic effect causing

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 propagate and grow them but, most of all, we love simply revelling in their beauty.  With our passion for plants it may come as a surprise that in Madagascar, in addition to plant conservation, we are

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 Collared Lemur, Eulemur cinereiceps, is critically endangered and known from just four protected areas in a small part of SE Madagascar.  One of these sites is the 1553-hectare Ankarabolava-Agnakatrika Forest where Missouri Botanical Garden has supported

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 one of these sites also supports important populations for threatened lemurs. Although primarily motivated by plant conservation, naturally, as responsible managers, we must also care for the animals inhabiting these sites. One of the locations where

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 de Pl@ntNet a débuté en 2011, avec une première version de l’application lancée en 2013. Aujourd’hui, l’application compte plus de six millions d’utilisateurs, propose plus de 50 000 espèces illustrées, enregistre plus de 22 millions d’observations