Posts Tagged: Madagascar

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]