An educational trunk in the Makay
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In April 2018, Naturevolution organized a first awareness-raising mission in the new Makay protected area in Madagascar. A mission that aimed to test a first educational trunk.
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Preserving the coral reefs of the Coral Triangle
Located in the heart of the Coral Triangle, Sulawesi’s beautiful Matarape Bay serves as a sentinel for today’s threats to coral ecosystems. In April, the Naturevolution team, accompanied by eco-volunteers, carried out its first conservation actions on this land.
Lire la suiteDay 5: Encounter with a Python
We were beginning to smell quite a lot of carrion, and we came across a dead python about 6 metres long. We could see its skeleton, with thousands of worms inside and lots of flies on it, it was quite impressive to see. The day before, we were walking through the river at night, so we thought wow, we’re alive…
Lire la suiteDay 6 – Departure of porters
We attacked the descent on the hillside and reached the river 1h30 later. The path wasn’t the easiest. As usual, we had to hack our way through the mud, with leeches, things that stung, dead trees that cracked when you stepped on them, clay, in short, everything was complicated with 30 or 35kg bags!
Lire la suiteDay 7 – First packraft passage
We started the day thinking that we were going to reach a confluence and that we could potentially have climbed onto the boats at that point, but we’re still a long way from that…
Today we did a total of 2.5km, which is quite normal. The first reason is that the terrain is really complex. It’s a big torrent that goes downhill, we lost 200m of ascent today, there are waterfalls, rapids, it’s very uneven, it rumbles, you always have to cross the river and it’s very slippery.
Lire la suiteScoresby Mission Science Report 2016
After 2 years of studying the data collected in the field during the 2016 Scoresby Mission in Greenland, we are pleased to present the first scientific results.
Lire la suiteRefuse Plastic: Naturevolution tackles plastic waste in Indonesia
At the end of April, the Naturevolution team met on the southeastern branch of Sulawesi Island to lay the foundations for an ambitious project: the Konawe Plastic Project aims to reduce ocean pollution in a sublime lost world, but sorely lacking a waste management system.
Lire la suiteMatarombeo, or the jungle in all its glory
This was one of the objectives of the mission: to carry out a first survey in the mangroves of the rivers that flow from the Karst massif of Matarombeo, one of the water castles of the region, in order to identify suitable sites for the realization of the future scientific expedition Konawe 2018.
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In 2018, Naturevolution started a beekeeping activity in villages near the Makay massif in Madagascar. The aim of this pilot project is to train 15 beekeepers and 2 artisans in 4 villages in the southern part of the massif, and to gather the necessary elements to launch a larger project.
Lire la suiteDay 8 – Difficult terrain, fungus and quicksand
It took us a little longer to get ready this morning because we had to repair two pairs of shoes, Antoine’s and mine. Mine had a gaping hole of 10cm and I had to find a system to repair them. So we did a bit of sewing.
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