Madagascar travel-video collection
Conservation corner
Madagascar is wealthy about endemic species (flora and fauna) that are endangered.
Rosewood trafficking in Madagascar, are you kidding us?
This post is running for the World Blogger Contest for the Madagascar destination. I wish I had a more accurate topic to categorize it into, but the closest ones are probably “ecotourism”, “Art, crafts & shopping”, or “culture”. The point for this post is to report how this rosewood issue is addressed by local population- [...]
Photo: Lemur species rediscovered after 100 years
A species of lemur has been rediscovered more than a century after it was last spotted, report researchers from McGill University, the German Primate Centre in Göttingen Germany, the University of Antananarivo in Madagascar, and the University of Mass…
How to end Madagascar’s logging crisis
In the aftermath of a military coup last March, Madagascar’s rainforests have been pillaged for precious hardwoods, including rosewood and ebonies. Tens of thousands of hectares have been affected, including some of the island’s most biologically-diver…
Satellites being used to track illegal logging, rosewood trafficking in Madagascar
Analysts in Europe and the United States are using high resolution satellite imagery to identify and track shipments of timber illegally logged from rainforest parks in Madagascar. The images could be used to help prosecute traders involved in traffic…
Contribute to Mozilla FireFox’s support to Namoroka Park in Madagascar
Those last years, big guys find it trendy or fashionable to get an inspiration from a Madagascar-related item… We all know the dreamworks cartoons (Madagascar, Madagascar 2-escape to africa, Merry Madagascar), now we have my favorite browser AKA Firefox who codenamed its next release Namoroka – inspired from a park in the north-west of Madagascar [...]
Conservation International leverages google earth for climate change showcase
… and guess who’s the country used for case study: Madagascar. Although I’m not inspired yet to make a whole new post about how google earth virtual tour can help, I just want Madafan readers to be aware of this video. I know, this is only an “echoing chamber” phenomenon but the video is worth [...]
A catastrophic august for Madagascar
I hardly can stay muted for what’s happening in my country now. We all know Madagascar is going through a political crisis but that’s not the point of this post. Being a blog promoting Madagascar as a tourism destination, it’s a bit hard to report the following although I think it’s the essence of a [...]
200 amphibians discovered in Madagascar
Thanks to @JChameleon and @EclectiqueID for sharing about this news. This article published by the more-than serious magazine ScienceDaily is another eye-opener about how rich Madagascar’s biodiversity is. While researchers get very excited about discovering few new species, I can imagine how important this discovery of 200 species of amphibians is – whether we are [...]
Saha forest camp … A good choice for this long week-end
Tomorrow is a holiday in Madagascar in observance of the workday. Thus, we have a long week-end, and I know most of us want to discover new places to be. This post will be a photographic narration of the way to Saha Forest Camp lodge, a quiet and wonderful place to be for nature lovers [...]
Saha forest camp Anjozorobe…An escape not far from Antananarivo
In case you’re wondering, this is not a “chalet” in Switzerland but a bungalow of Saha Forest Camp in Anjozorobe- 90km tar-road plus 10 km of community-maintained secondary muddy road during rainy season. Madafan have been there two weeks ago (almost end of rainy season), could though go to Saha Forest Camp with a sedan-like [...]
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