Why protect the forests of Makay?

Why protect forests? If you have to choose between a destructive tradition that works in the short term, and a conservation strategy that is out of the ordinary and requires a little change in lifestyles, it is good to take stock of the real stakes of forest protection – those of Makay in Madagascar, of course!

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Launch of the project 1 million trees for Makay

Naturevolution launches an ambitious reforestation project around the villages of Makay. 2019 will have seen the creation of 5 forest nurseries, the sowing of almost 100,000 seeds – without the use of plastic pots! – and the replanting of the first few hundred trees.

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First activities in support of beekeeping

At the beginning of 2018, the Naturevolution team in Madagascar carried out the missions prior to the launch of the beekeeping project in Makay. While, on the French side, the team is busy to supplement the project budget, it is necessary to set up the technical support for the project, assess the situation specific to each village, and identify the first beekeepers.

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Deforestation: a state of play in 2019

Deforestation: awareness of this scourge was thought to have been around for a long time. . . But the fires that ravaged Brazil and Bolivia in the summer of 2019, as well as their resurgence in Indonesia, prove that we are continuing to reduce the few intact forests that remain on our planet. Let us take stock of the situation today and look at the causes of deforestation, continent by continent.

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Rice for Makay: the Intensive Rice Cultivation System (SRI)

The establishment of school rice fields is an important component of the ‘Graines de Changement’ project. To initiate this phase, Naturevolution has partnered with the association Tefy Saina to carry out a feasibility study with the objective of studying the possibility of setting up a System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in the villages around the Makay River.

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