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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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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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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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