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“Lemurs: A unique national heritage, let’s protect their habitats” is the theme adopted for the celebration of the 2022 National Lemur Day. The Day will be celebrated in the Menabe Region (Western Madagascar) on October 28. Remember that the protected area of Menabe Antimena is home to the Microcebus Berthae, the world smallest lemur which is critically endangered. If deforestation is the major cause of the lemurs’ disappearance, hunting for consumption follows closely. In the protected area of Beanka (Western Madagascar, Melaky Region), the manager BCM has succeeded in a major challenge: to eradicate local consumption of lemurs.  From a tradition …. Before 2010, the populations of certain localities around Beanka protected area would consume lemur meat as a tradition. On the one hand, the zebu is rather considered as a property necessary for agriculture. On the other hand, acts of banditry have reduced the number of zebus. “In April, …

The end of the dry season in Madagascar is not a good sign for our protected areas, as it heralds an increase in fires. The managers of protected areas must be creative every year to prevent and control fires. In Beanka, BCM, the manager has been experimenting since 2017, the method of green firebreaks. Direction to the west of Madagascar, in the province of Mahajanga, Melaky region.   The Beanka protected area is regularly victim of the propagation of wild fires provoked in large part by the dahalo(large-scale crime) to hide their tracks and that of the zebus and delay their pursuers. These fires, spreading in the protected area, threaten the cover of the semi-deciduous dense rainforest, the dense dry forest, and low thicket. This particular landscape is a conservation target because it provides habitat for pollinator species (especially bees) and a medicinal plants storage. This forest preserves kilometers of …