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The risks of pollution linked to the extraction of critical rare earth minerals are uniting a diehard opposition including farmers and environmentalists.
Published April 22, 2021 at 3:21 PM CDT Listen • 23:18 Missouri Botanical Garden Missouri Botanical Garden botanist Jeannie Raharimampionona has been praised for her conservation efforts in her native island of Madagascar. The National Geographic Society recognized Raharimampionona for her conservation work in Madagascar by honoring her with the 2020 Buffett Award for Leadership in Conservation. She also received the March Award from the Botanical Gardens Conservation International.
Ecologist Adam Smith has been studying the effects of deforestation in Madagascar to predict its future fate. Using computer models, he took into consideration roads near forests, consumption rates of wood, proximity to villages, wildfires and so on to figure out what the island’s future forest cover would look like.
Podcast: Lemur love and award-winning plant passion in Madagascar
by Mike Gaworecki on 11 November 2020
We’ve got recordings of indri lemurs and the architect of 11 new protected areas that aim to protect Madagascar’s rich biodiversity of plant life on this episode of the Mongabay Newscast.
We’re joined by Jeannie Raharimampionana, a Malagasy botanist who has identified 80 priority areas for conservation of plant life in her country and has already turned 11 of those areas into officially decreed protected areas.
We’re also joined by Valeria Torti, who uses bioacoustics to improve conservation of critically endangered indri lemurs in Madagascar’s Maromizaha forest. She plays for us a number of recordings of the primates’ songs.