Greater Bamboo Lemur Conservation Project
You *can* make a difference - help us save the greater bamboo lemur. Donations can be made by credit card or PayPal here (if you wish to pay by check, please see below):
In collaboration with savingspecies.org, ICTE seeks to purchase land in the Mahasoa and Morafeno region to link the fragmented habitats of the greater bamboo lemur through a corridor in order to safeguard the remaining plants and animals and sustain genetic viability.
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ICTE seeks funds to purchase 8,100 hectares (20,015 acres) of degraded agricultural land adjacent to the Ranomafana-Andringitra corridor, a protected area containing greater bamboo lemurs in the southeastern region of Madagascar. This area links two vital remaining habitats (Mahasoa and Morafeno) to the southeastern portion of the Ranomafana-Andringitra corridor. This purchase will allow protection and regeneration of the habitat and, ultimately, enable these populations of greater bamboo lemurs to grow and expand. Moreover, it is estimated that this purchase will “soak up” carbon equivalent to that emitted by a minimum of 2,400 average Americans and do so for about 60 years.
Virtually no forest persists in the immediate vicinity of the Mahasoa and Morafeno agricultural plantations. The majority of the landscape consists of slashed and burned agricultural land that has been abandoned with some operational agricultural rice paddies, manioc- and cornfields. In addition, there are areas of secondary growth in the lowlands intermittent with coffee plantations, with a small portion (~13 percent) of relatively intact habitat in hilly regions. Dispersed through this landscape are isolated bamboo patches, although remaining forests and bamboo patches are being actively degraded and are predicted to completely disappear in the near future unless immediate action is taken. Greater bamboo lemurs rely on these bamboo patches to survive.
ICTE is working in collaboration with savingspecies.org to raise funds for the land purchase while concurrently hiring and training local residents as rangers to protect the land from fire and poaching, establishing a powerful local public awareness campaign, and recruiting local assistance in restoration of forest/bamboo in the new corridor. With this concerted effort to purchase, protect and restore habitat, it is possible to save the greater bamboo lemur and we need your help to do so.
Please click here for more details about the greater bamboo lemur and this project.
For the full proposal please visit savingspecies.org
Inquiries about donating to ICTE’s Greater Bamboo Lemur land purchase in the Mahasoa and Morafeno regions can be directed to:
Lauren Donovan, ICTE Program Assistant
Phone: +1 (631) 632-9440
Fax: +1 (631) 632-7692
E-mail: lauren.donovan(at)stonybrook.edu
Donations by check can be made out to ‘Research Foundation - SUNY’ and mailed to:
The Greater Bamboo Lemur Conservation Project
Institute for the Conservation of Tropical Environments (ICTE)
SBS Building, 5th Floor, N-537
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Stony Brook, NY 11794-4364
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