Malagasy Crane
on April 19, 2012
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This is Team Work! These Malagasy men are moving a very heavy, power generator for MBP to a truck for transport and singing the whole way.
Building a Well for a Nursery
on April 19, 2012
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In order to be sustainable, MBP digs a well for every nursery built, near each community to provide water during the dry season. The building of these wells are all hand dug. There is no electrical power or cranes used, only man power! Here you see the men putting in concrete cylinders for the sides of the well, so that it does not collapse.
New Video- Diademed Sifaka Family at play!
on April 7, 2012
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Check out one of our newest videos! It’s super cute!!!
Reforestation Efforts in Kianjavato, Madagascar
on March 6, 2012
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Over the last 50 years, the rainforests of Kianjavato in southeastern Madagascar have been carved away to expand agricultural land and provide firewood and lumber to communitymembers, leaving behind pockets of fragmented forests. These unprotected forests are inhabited by amphibians, lemurs, chameleons, insects, carnivores and flora unlike anywhere else. Two critically endangered lemurs, the greater bamboo lemur and the black and white ruffed lemur, also reside in these forests of Kianjavato. To protect this amazing … Read More
KAFS Alphabet
on February 28, 2012
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By Liz – a 2011-12 MBP Varecia monitoring team volunteer I just completed nine months of volunteer work on the Varecia project and I really like to make lists, so here is a list of what I like about KAFS (in alphabetical order): Aye-aye! Just a couple of weeks after arriving in Madagascar, the dart team captured the second aye-aye in the area. I was really hoping I would get to see an aye-aye … Read More
A Few Amazing Creatures
on February 21, 2012
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By Sophie and Megan, 2010-11 MBP Varecia monitoring team A few amazing creatures snapped at Vatovavy by Sophie & Megan Beetle found whilst exploring the other side of Vatovavy Cute baby Highland Streaked Tenrec Cricket as big as my fist, monstrous! Caterpillar with the night’s sky on its back The star of the show, it is of course Varecia varigata