Category: Blog

Volunteers Overnight at Lokobe Forest Reserve

Volunteers Overnight at Lokobe Forest Reserve

As part of our Forest Conservation volunteer program, volunteers regularly hike through our neighbouring forests and reserves.  Recently, a group enjoyed an overnight stay in the Lokobe Forest Reserve.  Natalia shares the experience with...
Madagascar Volunteer: Volunteers Complete Toilet Block 2

Volunteers Complete Toilet Block 2

Toilet Block 2 in Andrekareka Hely is finished! Well done MRCI staff and volunteers!  We are all very excited to announce that Toilet Block 2 in Andrekareka Hely village is finished and up and running, complete with a beautiful paint job! Block 3...
Volunteer Bird Walk - Madagascar Olive Bee-eater and Madagascar Crested Drongo

Forest Conservation Volunteer Projects: Bird Walk

Madagascar Crested Drongo Though it is small in size, Nosy Komba hosts a relatively large number of bird species. Bird walks form an integral part of our forest conservation volunteer projects and a typical bird survey here takes place between 6:30...
Madagascar Volunteers: Environmental Day

Madagascar Volunteers Saving the Environment, One Battery at a Time

Every couple of months we hold an Environmental Day in the classes our volunteers teach. We always pick an appropriate topic and this time around we decided to talk about flat batteries and how they can negatively influence the ocean and forest....

Volunteers Spend a Day in Paradise

Volunteers at MRCI recently took the “Turtle Express” out on a day trip to Nosy Tanikely to check out the seabed and landscape of this beautiful, uninhabited island. Nosy Tanikely is situated about 10 kilometres west of Nosy Komba. With its great...
Forest Conservation Volunteer Programs: Mantella Ebenaui

Volunteer Programs: Forest Walk

Our Forest Conservation Volunteer Programs involve constant data collection and monitoring of the wildlife in the forest surrounding us.  From lemurs, birds and, of course, reptiles as we have species living on the island that occur nowhere else in...
Volunteers Community Projects in Andrekareka Hely

Volunteers Build Toilets in Andrekareka Hely

Volunteers participating in the Teaching & Community program are regularly involved with construction projects to improve the lives of the people living on the island. Despite the incredibly rich plant and animal life, Madagascar is among the...

How To Make Coconut Rice

It’s Tuesday today which means we get to enjoy coconut rice for dinner tonight. Here at camp, Raissa, Perline, Marie-Solange, Micheline and Nadia treat us to a different, delicious meal each night of the week, but ask around and no doubt...
Madagascar Volunteer: Nosy Komba Starry Night

Our Night Sky

In light of Sunday night’s supermoon eclipse I decided to do an astrology themed blog post… Here at camp, our night sky acts as an overhead gallery. Each night we go about our business under a phenomenal display; deign to look skyward...
Madagascar Volunteer Partners - Andrew Polaszek

New Species of Parasitoid Wasps Discovered on Nosy Komba

Dr Andrew Polaszek For a couple of weeks in June, we were fortunate enough to have the company of Dr Andrew Polaszek, a world expert in parasitoid wasps, who came to study and hopefully discover new species of these insects on the island of Nosy...