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One of my projects in this third year with Peace Corps is assisting the development of a small local cultural and ecotourism program in the village of Belaoka in northeastern Madagascar. Belaoka is situated between Marojejy National Park and Anjanaharibe-Sud Special Reserve, close to the town of Andapa.

The ten hectare locally-protected reserve of Antanetiambo is a hillside of regenerating rainforest that serves as a watershed protecting the village’s surrounding lowland rice paddies. It is managed by members of the small Association des Partenaires Ecotouristiques, with whom I also collaborate on environmental radio broadcast development, in partnership with the Commune Rurale de Belaoka-Marovato.

Visitors may enter the bamboo forest with a local guide in search of nocturnal mouse lemurs and diurnal bamboo lemur groups, learn about medicinal and practical uses of native plant species, observe the Tsimihety Malagasy lifestyle, and even learn subsistence agriculture techniques! The Belaoka community is welcoming and eager to exchange knowledge with visitors and certain proceeds go directly to the village for community development projects.

At Antanetiambo we’re working together to demonstrate that conservation pays in myriad ways!