Salama!

“In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught.” Baba Dioum.

Welcome to this blog describing the “life” of a wildlife veterinarian during a project on lemurs’ health in Madagascar. This project called “ecological, biomedical and genetic health of four populations of lemurs in the Betampona Natural Reserve, Madagascar” involves a number of researchers, organizations and partners whose activities and hard work are critical to the completion of this project.

With this blog, I will try to give you an inside view of this project and some of the work involved for the conservation of the biodiversity in Madagascar. Together, we will visit a lowland rainforest only open to researchers and scientists, study critically endangered lemur species and discuss conservation issues in Madagascar. So let me begin by wishing you “Soava dia” (have a great trip) and I hope that our paths will cross soon to discuss these issues and share experiences.