MBP was highlighted by PRI’s The World. PRI Reporter, Bobby Bascomb, was in Madagascar this summer and interviewed Dr. Louis and community members about the MBP’s reforestation project. Click on the picture below to see the full article, click on the picture below!BP To listen to the radio broadcast, click link: PRI’s The World Radio Broadcast Link
Blog by MBP Volunteer, Sierra Images courtesy of MBP Volunteer, Blake The baby simus (greater bamboo lemurs) and I have started our lives in Madagascar very much the same way. We entered the groups around the same time in September and since then have been nearly a daily presence for the other. I guess that’s why, in many ways, I relate my experience here as a growing research assistant to the babies becoming … Read More
Blog by MBP Volunteer, Sierra We are entering into the rainy season, and I have begun to learn that with the heightened rain not only do the mosquito population increase, but the lychees ripen. As the rains come, lychee pour and bamboo falls. It’s the trend every year. As we excitedly await the fresh, flowery and tasty fruit, we also watch our monitoring sites lose patches of bamboo. The more and more the lychee ripen, … Read More
Exit Blog from MBP Volunteer, Brittney Where do I even start?? I’m sitting here at the MBP residence in Tana ready to soak up my final couple of days in Madagascar. I cannot believe how quickly 6 months flew by! It feels like just yesterday I was sitting in this exact same place feeling extremely nervous and scared and completely overwhelmed by my new environment. It’s funny, I’m actually having the same feelings now, … Read More
Blake has exciting news to share with us about his legendary day that developed on Friday. “It started with me participating in a race starting at Gabion and going to Kianjavato. I finished second (out of 6 participants) which was great and then got a hearty welcome once I arrived in Kianjavato by all the Malagasy there. After this, I went to work out in the field which was the typical fare of behavioural studies plus … Read More
Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium and Madagascar Biodiversity Partnership are partnering with Daharicomores.org to begin a research program on the mongoose lemurs in the forest areas of Madagascar and the Comoros Islands. We took the liberty of using google translator to give you the project information from their website! The MBP is excited to be a part of this research project. “The lemur Mung (Eulemur mongoz), lives in the forest areas of Madagascar and … Read More