MRCI Volunteers Helped Rebuild Maradoka School With an air of excitement, the villages, dignitaries, volunteers, learners and staff gathered for the opening of the new school classroom in Maradoka village. To emphasize importance that this small classroom has on the local community we were joined by very strong delegation of government officials which included the […]
MRCI Establishes A First Of Its Kind Agroforest On Nosy Komba
Agreements Between MRCI and Malagasy Leaders Forge the Way Forward To A Greener Future In a ground, breaking development MRCI concludes an agreement with the village of Ampasinomby to establish an agroforest. MRCI will build toilets in Ampadinombe and in turn will receive 20 thousand square meters of forest to rehabilitate. This degraded land and deforested area has […]
Madagascar Research and Conservation Institute Staff Publish Herpetology Article
Madagascar Research and Conservation Institute’s (MRCI) former forest conservation staff turned their time on Nosy Komba, Madagascar, into a published research article depicting the herpetological diversity across the island, and how abundance is affected by different habitat types and therefore the conservation value of those areas. The following is a brief summary of its contents: […]
Volunteers Help Construct a New Artificial Reef
Construction of another artificial reef started a couple of weeks ago with the purchase of cement and donation of porous rocks. These would make up the base structures to which we would attach coral polyps, ready to grow into a self-sustaining reef Over the course of the week our marine team, led by Roshan, Emma, […]
Community Volunteers Build A School for Andrekareka Be
At Madagascar Research and Conservation Institute, we are always striving to improve the lives of the people we come into contact with on the island. Our latest project is to build a school. Our community development volunteers, along with many of the local people from the village, are in the process of building the school […]