Posts Tagged: climate

Madagascar’s Seedlings Hermann Fanomezantsoa realized he had a role to play to protect the environment at a very young age. His passion for conservation began when he was just 14. Even then I saw that the rainfall patterns were disrupted. People were destroying the forest without worrying about the consequences, destroyed forests were not replaced, […]

Remaking the Mangroves The last few years have not been kind to Abdallah. He lives in Ankazomborona, a small village near Ambilobe, and part of WWF’s Northern Mozambique Channel landscape, where the results from his trade, fishing, have been declining in recent years. A Family Tradition He learned to fish from his father. And his […]

Fishing for the Future Jean Christophe Solaray comes from Ankilibory, a fishing village in the Toliara region located 4 kilometers from the sea. He is about 42 years old, though he’s not sure exactly, and is the father of six children, between the ages of 2 and 20. He’s been a fisherman since forever. Through […]

“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 […]