A new frog discovery in Madagascar’s South-East reminds us how resilient, but also how threatened, the Malagasy wilderness is. A large frog has been discovered in Madagascar’s Domain de la Cascade Plantation Lansargues nature reserve, in the country’s South-East. The three-inch amphibian, named Love’s Giant Stream Frog (after the herpetologist Bill Love, who has contributed greatly to the understanding…
We at Money for Madagascar are proud to have become a member of the Population Health Environment Madagascar Network (PHE). The 88-member network unites health and environmental organisations, helping one another work with and for more than 830,000 men, women and children in remote and threatened areas. PHE helps organise peer exchange, promotion of best practice and integrated programmatic…
Two reports in recent days have addressed the severity of climate catastrophe’s impact on Malagasy men, women and children. Amnesty International has issued an extremely critical report regarding the treatment of more than 90,000 Antandroy men, women and children who have been forced to flee the Androy region in Southern Madagascar since 2017. The region has been stricken by…
An astonishingly rare chameleon species has been discovered in a new location in Madagascar – both a cause for celebration and a reminder of the precarious nature of the world in which we live, and the creatures we share it with. A biological research team working in an area of spiny forest in southwestern Madagascar has recorded and reported…
Two days of meetings involving Foreign Ministers from European and African Union states have done little to reduce fears that Europe may be turning its back on the continent to its South. Since the rise of Donald Trump to the US presidency, many EU and other European states have announced significant and potentially extremely harmful cuts to international aid…
This year’s International Day for Biodiversity – which falls today, Thursday 22 May 2025 – is being held under the theme: ‘Harmony with nature and sustainable development.’ The phrase could be our slogan, and at Money for Madagascar we work specifically with men, women and children in arguable the world’s biodiversity hotbed to help Malagasy people achieve development and…
A new study in Madagascar reveals that young Malagasy people are suffering not only physical, but also serious mental health challenges as a result of climate catastrophe. And yet, even as these impacts are being uncovered and better understood, and even within a context in which the world is agreed that action must be taken to protect the environment…
‘As a result of this project, we’ve noticed remarkable changes… We’re planting new trees and we look after the forests, reporting when people come to chop down trees… we’re learning new techniques and raising awareness about the importance of the environment.‘ The Big Give Green Match Fund is coming, and will last from 12pm on Tuesday 22 April to 12pm on Tuesday…
Almost 11,000 men, women and children have been displaced by Tropical Storm Jude, which made two landfalls in Madagascar this month – a situation made even worse by extreme food insecurity, and risk of disease associated with lack of food, and storm-related chaos. The World Health Organisation reported that as of Tuesday 18 March, 10,587 people have been displaced…
Today, 21 March 2025, is the International Day of Forests, a moment where the world can take a moment to appreciate – and hopefully commit to protecting – the environment of which we are all a part and upon which we all rely. The theme of this year’s recognition is ‘Celebrating Forests and Food’, a matter especially close to…
Friday 20th March is world frog day,…
Hazo tokana tsy mba ala, Ny firaisakina…
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