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  • Expansion of the Vohitrarivo Camp: A New Momentum for Research and Education

    The Vohitrarivo camp holds a very special place in the history of our programme. Built in 2008, it was our very first field base camp, designed to host the teams working on site. After being severely damaged by the cyclones of 2022, it had to be entirely relocated and rebuilt on the “Simus Land” — […]

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  • 2024 annual report

    Click on the link below to access the Helpsimus 2024 annual report:

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  • Five Years of Rice Field Guarding: A Success for Human–Lemur Coexistence

    It was in 2019 that we launched the pilot project to guard rice fields, in response to increasing tensions between farmers and greater bamboo lemurs. Although these lemurs consume rice only occasionally—less than 1% of their diet—the damage they could inflict was significant, sometimes destroying up to 80% of a harvest. These incursions threatened both […]

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  • 2023 annual report

    Click on the link below to access the Helpsimus 2023 annual report:

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  • Supporting schools: a priority in our conservation programme

    We have been supporting 5 public primary schools since the Bamboo lemur programme was launched in 2008: Sahofika, Vohitrarivo, Ambodigoavy, Ambodimanaga and Ambohipo, located in the 5 fokontany involved in the programme. Parents and teachers were the first to ask for our help. Indeed, when our first actions to protect the greater bamboo lemurs were […]

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  • The population of Greater Bamboo Lemurs protected by Helpsimus has almost tripled in 10 years!

    The Bamboo Lemur programme was initiated in 2008 following the discovery of two groups of greater bamboo lemurs (Groups 1 and 2), each comprising around twenty individuals at the time. Between 2008 and 2014, the growth in the population resulted not only from the implementation of the first protection measures, but also from the discovery […]

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