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The Great Hope of the Forest Until recently, Soavinera, 51, had lived all of her life in the heart of Madagascar’s great northern forest. She comes from the village of Andranomilolo, a place surrounded by over 300,000 ha of rivers and rainforest. This past week, Soavinera left her village to set out on the adventure […]

An Activist Moving Oceans 29-year-old Danny Kornelio is an outgoing oceanographer with the Institute of Fishery and Marine Sciences in Toliara, Madagascar. Fascinated by coral reef ecosystems, he has observed, for many years, the pressures on the Toliara Great Reef and is troubled by the changes he has seen. “Now, with the difficulty of daily […]

“To all young Malagasy, stand up and speak” As 22-year old Mailinantenaina (Nanti) Andriantsoavina traveled around Madagascar she kept seeing the same image over and over again – burnt out landscapes, sections of forest blackened by bushfires, ribbons of smoke rising up over woods in the distance. A curious and passionate student of communications, Nanti […]

Seven Malagasy grandmothers have been trained as solar engineers in India, thus helping to prevent logging for firewood and reducing destructive slash and burn activity. And they are finally learning to read. Written by Martina Lippuner / Photos by Louise Jasper Lydia carefully slides the wire into the solar lamp and applies the hot tip […]

There is a saying in Madagascar that states, “Childhood is the ground on which we walk our entire lives”. It is a perspective that has motivated people from the village of Manombo to take action to remedy a problem that is threatening their futures. Manombo is a village of just over a hundred people located […]

Would you rather have a mobile phone, a television or a toilet? Before you choose, think about this: only one of these three is likely to save your life. By Gaëtan Tovondrainy, WWF Projects Officer, Mahafaly Landscape Globally each day an estimated 989 children die from diarrhea largely caused by a lack of access to […]

A statement from WWF’s Head of Delegation: Tasneem Essop We’re only a day away from the deadline set by the French COP President for the delivery of the final agreement text. Ministers now have to knuckle down and work to ensure that we have a strong outcome in Paris. We are at a crossroads – we […]

WWF issued the following statement from WWF’s head of delegation, Tasneem Essop, in reaction to the issuance of this morning’s draft compilation negotiating text: “Clearly, finding all the solutions to protect the world from the ravages of climate change is going to take hard negotiations and multiple drafts. We’re still early in the process, but […]

Here are some images from Day 2 of the COP 21 conference in Paris.