The MBP’s Conservation Credit Reward (CCR) Program currently has over 900 participants (and growing) in Kianjavato enrolled! MBP Kianjavato Community Liaison, Fredo, distributed 26 Tough Stuff Solar Kits last month (April) CCR participants of Andalamahitsy, Ambolotara and Ambodifandramanana. Another 23 participants are on track to receive their CCR items in May! The MBP’s ideas about incentivizing participants with conservation credits for event involvement have sparked other organizations to start similar programs. In January, … Read More

Blog by MBP Volunteer, Robin Photos courtesy of Robin   The first thing that hit me about Madagascar was the level of development or rather the lack of it. For the drive from the capital “Tana” to Kianjavato I had mentally prepared myself, expecting to be shocked by the lack of forest. Whilst there were very few trees remaining until we got close to Ranomafana national park the thing that took me by surprise was … Read More

A Blog by MBP Volunteer, Rachel   Every Sunday is Market Day in our local town, Kianjavato. There is normally a procession of people heading to Market from the surrounding villages and along the way is the smell and sights of cinnamon and rice laid out to dry at the roadside. We head down early in the morning and the street is already bustling with people and lined with stalls towered with fruit and vegetables … Read More

The first month at KAFS (Kianjavato Ahmanson Field Station) has flown by. We seem to have just missed the worst of the rain and the days for now are mainly dry and hot. I am one of only six volunteers here at the minute, but the site is always buzzing with activity and people who already know your name before you have had the chance to say “Salama”!     Weekdays start at 5:30am with … Read More

Lemur teeth help take a bite out of Madagascar’s mysteries– Science Daily     Great PR today! Brooke Crowley from the University of Cincinnati, pointed out that “several organizations — including Madagascar Biodiversity Partnership — have put forth a great effort to plant trees and vegetation on the island. These efforts have successfully built forest corridors in the last decade that will connect previously isolated forest fragments.”   Click here to read the whole article! … Read More