Madagascar’s rare, unheralded flora
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under madagascar
Last fall, I was in Madagascar and toured a forest preserve that protects a rare tree, call the sohisika. Above is an unpublished photo gallery form the trip, with botanists from the Missouri Botanical Garden, which runs the preserve.
(I know this is a flashback to the fall, but better late than never.)
Tags: conservation, culture, environment, journalism, madagascar, Schizolaena tampoketsana, sohisika, village
MBG: Development through conservation
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under madagascar
Chris Birkinshaw (right) and Christian Camara (center), both of MoBot, inspect flora at the Ankafobe reserve in Central Madagascar
Solofo, president of the local fokontany, checks sohisika seedlings at the nursery
Seedlings of sohisika, a tree endemic to only a few small stands of forest in central Madagascar
Before leaving Madagascar, I took a day-trip with botanists Chris Birkinshaw and Christian Camara from the Missouri Botanical Garden to inspect a small nature reserve and several associated projects.
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Tags: ankafobe, antananarivo, conservation, environment, madagascar, missouri botanical garden, photography, plants, sohisika, trees
