Author: Roxanne Parker Welcome to Hell-Ville! Welcome to Hell-Ville a crazy, chaotic cacophony of noise, colliding colours & cultures that is the capital of Nosy Be. The rainy season means the streets are a muddy maze as yellow Tuks-Tuks whizz by beeping at Vazaha’s (whites) offering them a lift & momentary reprise from the mud […]
Chameleons of Nosy Komba
Author: Angus Hamilton The Panthers of Madagascar When I landed in Nosy Be, an island off the coast of north-western Madagascar, after over a day spent in transit, I could not wait to dive in and get started. Although I was apprehensive about being in a totally different environment to what I was used to, […]
Andoany Stump-Toed Frog
Author: Angus Hamilton In the Throes of Pygmy Toes My favourite thing about working on Nosy Komba was being able to head out into the forest and conduct herpetofauna (reptile and amphibian) surveys EVERY DAY. At 6:30 every morning, we would leave the comfort of camp and hike to one of MRCI’s 10 survey […]
Bird Species on Nosy Komba
Author: Angus Hamilton King of the Birds At the Madagascar Research and Conservation Institute, we didn’t just focus on reptiles and amphibians! Another big part of our research was looking at the abundance of bird species on Nosy Komba! At the time that I left MRCI, we had nearly 20 different sites across Nosy Komba […]
Achievements
Construction Our current project is the construction of a School in village of Ampoagna Renovated a day care center for intellectually disabled children on Nosy Be (March 2023) In collaboration with Tim Kohlbecher and the Leo Club Charity, we constructed a fresh water well in the village of Ampoagna (2019) In June of 2018, MRCI […]
