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Originally created by scientists for scientists, Madagascar Lemurs Portal (www.lemursportal.org) is a lemur databaseproject implemented by the FAPBM-GERP consortium and funded by the American Re:wild Foundation and FAPBM.   The portal is gradually migrating to become an educational medium accessible to the general public. For Madagascar Lemurs Portal, conservation is everyone’s business, hinting at the role that lemurs play in reforestation. The teams carried out awareness missions during the last quarter.   Engaging the general public in lemur conservation   Like every year, the last Friday of October is dedicated to the National Lemur Day. For 2022, the celebration of the National Day of Lemurs was held on October 28 and 29 in Morondava (Menabe Region, southern Madagascar)through exhibitions, a carnival, an awareness workshop and environmental actions. The topic «Lemurs, unique national heritage! Let us protect their habitats” was chosen for this celebration.   Being a project working on the …

From Mandrozo to Loky Manambato, and Beanka to Antrema, the Madagascar Lemurs Portal team is multiplying their visits to protected areas. Led by Lova Rakotoarimanana, the consultant in charge of the project, these missions aim to finalize the redesign of the portal to make the mobile application known and easily accessible. Redesign of the portal in progress Indeed, an evaluation of the portal’s performances and feedbacks from the surveys conducted in 2021 concluded that the portal should be more accessible to the general public. Thus, technical improvements were made to make it a field-based tool through an accessible mobile application. Eventually, the application should be accessible to researchers as well as protected area managers, local communities and tourists. The goal is to integrate as many people as possible in the monitoring of Madagascar lemur populations. In each protected area visited, the functionalities are presented and then tested in real conditions …

Madagascar Lemurs Portal is the most comprehensive information portal on lemurs and has taken many years of hard work to become a scientific reference tool for lemur data. With over 50,000 visitors each year and 490 contributors worldwide, the site is looking to move up a gear and seeks to be more accessible to the layman. Aligned with this vision, the Re:wild Foundation is providing a USD 25,000 financing for the year 2022, with the financial management being entrusted to the Foundation. From the beginning in 2016, FAPBM has been present as a coordinator of the project implementation consortium and financial manager, with the conviction that the availability of biodiversity data is an asset for conservation actions. This financing breathes new life into the project, with the focus now on expanding the community so that the portal can reach its full potential. The aim is to link the portal to …

On Friday, December 10, Madagascar Lemurs Portal, the Regional Office of Tourism of Analamanga, the National Federation of Guides of Madagascar and the Department of Anthropobiology and Sustainable Development,  University of Antananarivo, organized a day of mobilization and information on lemurs. In order to sensitize the general public on the importance of lemurs, activities were conducted in the compound of the Regional Office of Tourism.  A tour allowed visitors to travel, learn and test their knowledge of lemurs and close the loop. The program included a photo exhibition accompanied by tourist guides to discover forty species of lemurs still little known by the Malagasy, as well as fun and informative games with the committed support of young students from the Department of  Anthropobiology and Sustainable Development.   The participation of stakeholders such as GERP, Sifaka Conservation, and FAPBM also helped  expose the real threats facing these species, and to highlight …