Management and welfare of working elephants at Indawgyi Lake
Management and welfare of working elephants at Indawgyi Lake In the Indawgyi Lake Biosphere Reserve we will be taking care of the management of working elephants from 2020. The project is financially supported by the Welttierschutzgesellschaftand implemented on site in cooperation with the Myanmar organisation Grow back for Posterity(GBP). The project activities Read more …
Little Rangers 3.0
In September 2019 we conducted the 3rd Little Rangers environmental education camp at the Centre National de Formation d’Etudes et de Recherche en Environnement et Forestière (CNFEREF). 300 Little Rangers have now already visited the Kirindy Forest to observe receive our environmental education curriculum and observe sifakas, mouse lemurs und Read more …
Sustainable development
Sustainable development Improved chicken farming and protection against predators Traditionally, the chickens in Menabe are not regularly supplied with food, water, and medical care. This form of chicken farming is not very effective. The chickens often grow very slowly and are routinely affected by diseases such as avian influenza and Read more …
Little Rangers at ATBC 2019
Little Rangers at ATBC 2019 in Antananarivo Chances for Nature presented the Little Rangers environmental education project in this years conference of the Association of Tropical Biology and Conservation in Antananarivo from 29.07. until 03.08.2019.
Auszeichnung für Umweltbildung in Madagaskar
Hanitra Markolf Rakotonirina gewinnt Terre de Femmes Award der Fondation Yves Rocher für ihr Engagement im Bereich Umweltbildung Unsere Projektleiterin Hanitra Markolf Rakotonirina, die treibende Kraft hinter Chances for Nature’s Umweltbildungsaktivitäten in Madagaskar, hat für Ihr Engagement in Ihrem Heimatland Madagaskar den 1. Preis des Terre de Femmes Award der Fondation Read more …
Photo exhibition at Affenberg Salem about the diversity and conservation of Primates
The exhibtion “Chances for Nature – Diversity and Conservation of Primates” shows incredible wildlife photos of primates at the Affenberg Salem and gives insights to the conservation projects of Chances for Nature in Peru und Madagascar. More than 500 different primates live on our planet. About 60% of them are threatened with extinction. Since Saturday, Read more …
Gibbon – Voice of the forest
Gibbon – Voice of the forest 8:30 am. The forest in northern Kachin State in Myanmar near Lake Indawgyi finally awakes completely. From one moment to the other the variety of bird songs are drowned by the impressive singing of several group of Gibbons of the species Hoolock leuconedys. The Read more …
Training-Workshops at Lake Indawgyi, Myanmar
Methods for biodiversity monitoring
In March 2016, Chances for Nature member Matthias Markolf was visiting the Indawgyi lake in Myanmar and conducted trainings on biodiversity and environmental awareness on behalf of Fauna Flora International (FFI). Local employees and ranger of the Indawgyi Wildlife Sanctuary, FFI, Inn Chitu and Friends of Wildlife participated in the trainings. The participants were trained in different biological methods to assess and monitor wild animal populations. Methods ranged from non-invasive genetic sampling, camera trapping and recordings of Eastern Hillock Gibbon vocalizations to thourough scientific documentation of observations in the field.
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- Employee- Training at Indawgyi lake, Myanmar
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- Employee- Training at Indawgyi lake, Myanmar
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- Employee- Training at Indawgyi lake, Myanmar
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- Employee- Training at Indawgyi lake, Myanmar
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- Employee- Training at Indawgyi lake, Myanmar
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- Employee- Training at Indawgyi lake, Myanmar
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- Employee- Training at Indawgyi lake, Myanmar
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- Employee- Training at Indawgyi lake, Myanmar
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- FFI employee during interview of local fisher
Environmental education and awareness
The most important threats and possibilities for awareness activities for the protection of wildlife at Indawgyi lake were discussed and evaluated together with the local staff during the second part of the training. At the same time a knowledge, behaviour and attitude survey was implemented in order to assess the knowledge and behaviour of the local population around the lake. The results of the training and survey should be incorporated directly in form of awareness activities in the future management plan of the Indawgyi Wildlife Sanctuary to increase environmental awareness in the local population.