By Anthony Arnold | Organization Director
Things have been busy in the hot forest and cool village. In the past two months, we’ve hosted a large group of University of Michigan students from the Schools of Art and Design and Natural Resources and Environment, constructed our forest research station, and continued reforestation trials in the nurseries.
This past week was a big one. Along with the World Wildlife Fund Madagascar, national, regional, and local forest officials and members of the press visited our site to check out our operations.
With chameleons, birds and baobabs mud sculptures on the walls of the research station (thanks to the hard work of the art students) (http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/mad.hoavy/EcoExplorers?authkey=Gv1sRgCPPonbnmw5mtzgE#), Ho Avy’s Malagasy staff played a key role in gaining the official recognition of our rights to the land where we’ve built the research station. Another agreement was signed permitting Ho avy and the village association we collaborate with to create a forest reserve. This reserve will be a no-exploitation forest and will be at least 500 hectares (more then 1000 acres). This achievement is the first of its kind in SW Madagascar, and has been in the works for over two years. With your support, big things are happening here.
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