Bringing biodiversity to secondary schools
43 prize-winning secondary school pupils were taken on a 2-day visit to Analamazaotra Special Reserve to learn about biodiversity and the environment.
All the latest news from Madagasikara Voakajy, the Malagasy biodiversity organisation dedicated to the conservation of endemic vertebrates and their habitats in Madagascar.
43 prize-winning secondary school pupils were taken on a 2-day visit to Analamazaotra Special Reserve to learn about biodiversity and the environment.
Radosoa Andrianaivoarivelo, a Madagasikara Voakajy member of staff who is doing his PhD at the University of Antananarivo, was awarded a prize for his report about his internship at Bangor University.
During the month of May our community conservation team worked closely with the community-based organisations involved in our capacity building programme.
We are working with subsistence hunters in the Mangabe forest to better understand the different type of wild animals that they trap for food.
The Belalanda Chameleon is one of Madagascar's rarest animals. It is only known from a tiny area to the west of Toliara where it survives in degraded habitats. We are working with WWF to prevent the extinction of this species and had a planning meeting last week in Toliara about launching an environmental education project in the two sites where this species is known to occur.