Posts Tagged: mangroves

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 […]

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 […]

For months a single question has dominated conversation among the young football players of the Kivalo district in Madagascar. “When will the football equipment arrive?” Kivalo is at the heart of the Manambolo-Tsiribihina region, one of WWF’s priority areas in Western Madagascar. Recently, a group of representatives from WWF Sweden and the Swedish Postcode Lottery […]