Budgie does the great red island

Some Photos


Dadyn’i Fanja preparing vanilla beans in Voloina


Mother and daughter farming rice in the Belaoka Commune


“Libby” the adult female white-fronted brown lemur on Nosy Mangabe Special Reserve


Verreaux’s sifaka in the south of Madagascar


“AF” (Antennae Female) silky sifaka in Marojejy National Park


Ring-tailed lemur in the south of Madagascar


The golden bamboo lemur (Hapalemur aureus) Ranomafana National Park


Silky sifaka (Propithecus candidus) in Marojejy National Park


Sanzinia madagascariensis tree boa in Marojejy National Park


Pygmy Malagasy kingfisher on Nosy Mangabe Special Reserve


Vue from rainforest in Marojejy National Park, Visit: www.marojejy.com


Researcher Erik Patel with the “simpona whisperer” Nestor, our favorite sifaka tracker, Marojejy National Park


F&R with drying “painza” papyrus for weaving in the village


New baby number nine


Maman’i M pounding rice in the courtyard


Makira, our first participatory ecological monitoring team in the rainforest


Heterixalis madagascariensis endemic tree frog


Baobab in Ifotaka spiny forest with moonlight

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Epiphytic orchids in Andasibe National Park, on the high plateau

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Endemic frog in Andasibe National Park, on the high plateau

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Indri indri, or “babakoto.” This largest of the living lemurs has fantastic vocalizations that echo through the rainforest like whalesong in the ocean deep.

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Rachel with her host sisters in Sambaina, during Peace Corps training.

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Rachel with the children next door in Sambaina.

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Fishermen pulling in their catch on the beach at Rachel’s village, along the Bay of Antongil.

There is a link to more pictures under October posts.

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