A walk in the woods
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under photography
A stroll after the rain
Colleagues Lopen and G.S. walk home after we paid a visit to a wedding farther down our valley. It had been raining most of the afternoon, but the clouds cleared and the sun broke through the trees.
A fine evening.
Tags: bhuriakop, forest, india, landscape, photography, sikkim, teaching, volunteering, woods
Saving a forest?
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under notes, photography
Saviors of the Mandena forest?
The hands belong to Johny Rabenantoandro, director of biodiversity and rehabilitation for Rio Tinto’s mine in southern Madagascar. Yes, you read that right. A mine, with a director of biodiversity.
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Tags: conservation, environment, forest, ft dauphin, madagascar, mine, photography, rio tinto, seeds, trees
Does this look like a titanium mine?
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under notes, photography
The mining company's big gambit
I came to Ft. Dauphin in remote southern Madagascar for one primary purpose: to visit the Rio Tinto titanium mine that is pledging to be environmentally friendly.
This photo came from the nature conservancy at the first mine site in Mandena; the nursery above will be used when the company attempts the gargantuan task of regrowing precious littoral (coastal) forest out of fields of sand left behind by the mine.
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Tags: conservation, environment, forest, ft dauphin, madagascar, mining, nursery, plants, rio tinto, titanium
