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  • Update of the development plan of VOI Miaradia

    The site of the Bamboo Lemur program is divided into 3 sectors now managed by 3 VOI or village associations that we have helped to set up: the VOI Miaradia, Samivar and Manirisoa. The VOI Miaradia was created in 2018. Its area of ​​intervention covers the territory of several groups of greater bamboo lemurs: Groups […]

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    With the support of:
    • Fondation Tierpark Hagenback
    • Univet

  • Rice paddy guarding 2020-2021: assessment of the main season campaign

    The crop guarding resumed in March 2021 in Vohitrarivo (VOI Miaradia) and extended in May 2021 to Volotara (VOI Manirisoa) and Sahofika (VOI Samivar). It stopped at the end of June after the end of the « main season campaign » harvest. From March to June 2021, none of the paddy fields watched by the guards was […]

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  • Floristic and faunal inventory

    The floristic inventory started in 2018. It continued this year near the village of Vohitrarivo and it was carried out by a botanist of our local partner IMPACT Madagascar. Six forest fragments constituting 6 of the 8 conservation areas of the VOI Miaradia were thus visited. Despite their state of degradation (more or less important […]

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  • More than 700ha of forest protected to conserve Greater Bamboo Lemurs!

    For the past 10 years Helpsimus has been constantly fighting to protect one of the largest wild populations of Greater Bamboo Lemurs (Prolemur simus) in Madagascar, a species classified as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List and whose numbers are now estimated at around 1,500 specimens. We work nearby the Ranomafana National Park but […]

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    With the support of:
    • IUCN – Save Our Species

  • Floristic inventory on the territory of group VIII

    As a reminder, the floristic inventory started in 2018. It continued last year in Volotara on the territory of the group VIII and was carried out by the botanist of our local Partner, the NGO IMPACT. And the results are very interesting! The vegetation on the territory of the group VIII presents a varied physiognomy. […]

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