On July 26, 2016 we were lucky enough to visit Isalo National Park; the third most visited national park in Madagascar. The park gains it’s name from a plant that…
Published August 5, 2016 by wunderre
We arrived to Beza Mahafaly on July 28, 2016. As previously described in one of my blog posts, Beza is a special reserve that receives few tourist visitors per year;…
Published August 5, 2016 by wunderre
Elaine Guevera is a graduate student at George Washington University and was able to spend a lot of time with our study abroad group while we were here in Madagascar.…
Published August 5, 2016 by wunderre
Doctor Richard Lawler gave a lecture on the history of Beza Mahafaly Special Reserve, Beza for short. The conservation efforts began in 1975 by the University of Tana, Yale, and…
Published August 4, 2016 by wunderre
Transect forest parcel 2 Our last day in Beza, we walked a transect of the forest of Parcel 2 to take inventory, and the different states, of the trees. Parcel…
Published August 4, 2016 by wunderre
We got a really great lecture from Elaine, the PhD student traveling with us to Beza, on conservation genetics. This is her area of expertise and it really showed! She…
Published August 3, 2016 by wunderre
Chloe Chen-kraus is a graduate student from Yale University. She is just starting a research thesis on the “Impacts of human activity on sifakas at Béza Mahafaly.” One of the…
Published August 3, 2016 by wunderre
The next day at Beza, we sent out the young male lemur with an accelerometer (backpack) securely on him. We broke up into two groups and had a period of…
Published August 3, 2016 by wunderre
The first field day at Beza Mahafaly, we went in the morning to capture two young sifaka lemurs. They are so cute!! They are cream colored and brown with black…
Published August 3, 2016 by wunderre
Today we went to Isalo National Park with tour guide Tody. As we trotted along the cliffs, we sighted some interesting man-made stone walls. Tody explained that these were different…