By Alex Flucke, MRCI SCUBA Instructor “Another Beach Clean…?” A typical day on the Marine Conservation Program here at MRCI consists of scuba diving, snorkeling, entering data we collected while scuba diving and snorkeling, and getting set up to go diving and snorkeling. One would not typically think that a marine activity could be done […]
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, […]
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 […]
Uroplatus species of Nosy Komba
Author: Angus Hamilton Tales of Camouflage and Leaf-Tails During my time at the Madagascar Research and Conservation Institute, going out and searching for reptiles and amphibians was one of the most enjoyable parts of the job. Day or night, I was (almost) always keen to get out and conduct another reptile survey. Night surveys were […]
Marine Conservation Monthly Report
Author: Ethan Getz, Marine Science Manager January 2018 Over the past few months, the marine conservation staff have worked to continue long-term reef monitoring projects while developing new methods to measure the health of our home reef and the surrounding reefs on Nosy Komba. Robust datasets have been collected from reef transect surveys, turtle watch, […]
