Posts Tagged: community conservation

Saviez-vous qu’entre 1973 et 2013, le Paysage Mahafaly a perdu 40% de sa couverture forestière ? Le Paysage Mahafaly, c’est entre autres choses la plus grande étendue de forêt épineuse de Madagascar. Il contient le pourcentage le plus élevé d’espèces végétales endémiques du pays, et 95% de ces espèces ne se trouvent nulle part ailleurs sur […]

Halte à la déforestation dans le Menabe! C’est le leitmotiv de la Région Menabe, qui a mis en œuvre, depuis l’atelier du mois de mars 2016, son plan d’action à court et moyen terme pour réagir contre la déforestation. Ce plan est appuyé par la Direction Régionale de l’Environnement, de l’Ecologie de la Mer et […]

« Feon’ny Ala Hoko » ou la voix des mangroves, est le nom de l’émission concoctée par l’équipe du WWF et l’antenne régionale de la radio nationale malgache à Maintirano, dans le paysage Manambolo-Tsiribihina. La radio est le premier média de la région pour sensibiliser la population sur les questions relatives à la conservation selon […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]