Bamboo Construction Blue Temple Engineers and architects are now using of bamboo construction know-how from prefabricated housing in Myanmar to build a much large structure in Madagascar. Raphaël Ascoli, founder of Yangon-based architecture design studio Blue Temple explains that he was working in Japan as an architect for a corporate design firm, before quitting and …
In 2014, a remarkable encounter with a whale shark sparked a journey of discovery off the coast of Madagascar’s Nosy Be. Little did marine enthusiast and researcher, Stella Diamant, know that this encounter would lead to a groundbreaking initiative in citizen science. Fast forward to today, and the results are nothing short of extraordinary: the …
Close-up of a ring-tailed lemur with her babies (Lemur catta) Image: Getty Conservationists in Madagascar partner with local communities to combat forest fires and protect the country’s iconic lemur species. Madagascar, home to the world’s only native lemur population, has already lost 80% of its natural areas and continues to lose approximately 200,000 hectares of …