Blog by MBP simus Monitoring Volunteer, Sierra   Most Fridays go by uneventfully at KAFS. It’s the last day of work so we all happily come home from the field ready to have our bi-weekly showers. Some make plans to go to one of the nearest towns for the weekend to get internet or report. But one Friday things went extremely unexpectedly. It was close to 4:00 in the afternoon and I had tiredly just … Read More

Blog by MBP Reforestation Volunteer, Sam           At the Kianjavato Field Station, I am currently working on the reforestation team, but that does not mean that I am not fascinated by wildlife. Every morning I see the lemur monitoring teams leave to enter the forest and see all types of wonder, but this jealously succumbed just after 2 weeks into my volunteer-ship here. While working in the nursery, I see all … Read More

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