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Salama Madagascar!: Dispatches from the Great Island - Take 5
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Biodiversity Conservation and Livelihoods in Madagascar and Beyond. Dispatches from the Great Island - Take 5. Just a quick post to re-boot this blog. I arrived in Tana a couple days ago. I will be in Madagascar through August. One more summer to get to know this island (well, as the last two nights reminded me as I was trying to find more blankets - it's winter here)! View from my balcony at Niaouly Hotel overlooking the East end of Avenue de l'Independence. For tons of information about the area and th...
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Salama Madagascar!: Locust Plague in Madagascar Continues Unaverted.
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Biodiversity Conservation and Livelihoods in Madagascar and Beyond. Locust Plague in Madagascar Continues Unaverted. First off, Happy Independence Day! 53 Years since Madagascar achieved independence from France in 1960. To celebrate on this blog I want to call your attention to an underreported and critically underfunded crisis that is happening here right now. The swarm has now grown to plague proportions. According to a recent FAO mission. At least today I can say that Bloomberg. 4 vahiny in 4 volana!
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Salama Madagascar!: 02.2014
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Biodiversity Conservation and Livelihoods in Madagascar and Beyond. Free Malagasy Language Resources. I can't believe it's been nearly a year since I have posted here. After months of digestive illness since returning from Mada last summer, I decided to take the winter break off, so while I think about Mada daily (you all know they have a new government. Right? I haven't been actively involved. Here is what he has to say about it:. Because it is an incredible resource as well. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Salama Madagascar!: 09.2011
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Biodiversity Conservation and Livelihoods in Madagascar and Beyond. Anatomy of an Expedition. Part One. In August, two fellow grad students from UW-Madison came out to Madagascar to conduct fieldwork for a project to document the critically endangered Greater Bamboo Lemur,. Using trail cameras, and to gather interview data related to forest use and specifically the culture of hunting. They stayed for 2 weeks. Here is a log of our expedition (a word I do so love to use). Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Our St...
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Salama Madagascar!: Free Malagasy Language Resources
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Biodiversity Conservation and Livelihoods in Madagascar and Beyond. Free Malagasy Language Resources. I can't believe it's been nearly a year since I have posted here. After months of digestive illness since returning from Mada last summer, I decided to take the winter break off, so while I think about Mada daily (you all know they have a new government. Right? I haven't been actively involved. Here is what he has to say about it:. Because it is an incredible resource as well. Enter your email address:.
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Salama Madagascar!: 10.2011
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Biodiversity Conservation and Livelihoods in Madagascar and Beyond. Gibson and CITES: Attention finally being paid to Madagascar? To a fairly comprehensive article about the case from the Tennessean, published in the home state of Gibson Guitars. The Myth of the Virgin Forest. Of 138 studies across the tropics was published in the online edition of Nature a few days ago and found that, “primary forests are irreplaceable for sustaining biodiversity.”. Gibson seems to imply so. This is the conservation myth.
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Salama Madagascar!: 07.2011
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Biodiversity Conservation and Livelihoods in Madagascar and Beyond. Agroforestry Conundrums: Vanilla vs. Camphor. A recent series of posts. Vanilla grows in the northern part of the country, where coastal and montane rainforests thrive. In a place as biodiverse as Madagascar, growing and cultivating crops like vanilla in harmony with nature is particularly important – irresponsible farming could threaten the integrity of this incredible landscape. From the Field Trading. I got off the taxibe. There was ...
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Salama Madagascar!: Hard evidence of 2000BCE settlement of Madagascar
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Biodiversity Conservation and Livelihoods in Madagascar and Beyond. Hard evidence of 2000BCE settlement of Madagascar. Unfortunately, nobody yet seems to have picked up this story, and I'm in no position to do it justice, but it needs mentioning. The paper is behind a firewall so until somebody decides to to some science journalism on this (where's the press conference? I guess you have to trust me. Chert flakes from one of two sites in N. Madagascar. From Dewar et al. 2013. Robert E. Dewar, Chantal ...
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Salama Madagascar!: Anatomy of an Expedition. Part One.
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Biodiversity Conservation and Livelihoods in Madagascar and Beyond. Anatomy of an Expedition. Part One. In August, two fellow grad students from UW-Madison came out to Madagascar to conduct fieldwork for a project to document the critically endangered Greater Bamboo Lemur,. Using trail cameras, and to gather interview data related to forest use and specifically the culture of hunting. They stayed for 2 weeks. Here is a log of our expedition (a word I do so love to use). On the way to Andasibe. Subscribe ...
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Salama Madagascar!: 05.2012
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Biodiversity Conservation and Livelihoods in Madagascar and Beyond. Corruption on high: Journalistic freedoms squashed to protect lucrative illegal logging. Africa Review - Madagascar court orders radio station sealed off. A court in Madagascar has ordered the sealing off of the main access road leading to a media house that aired a story on the illegal trafficking of precious woods allegedly by a billionaire chum of President Andry Rajoelina. Even this article has to suppress the name of the logger to n...
