Expanding a Rainforest Corridor for Lemurs

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Aqua-Firma will be planting a further 2024 trees this year in Madagascar, fulfilled with our Madagascan conservation partners Voakajy and local communities. As these trees grow, they will reinforce a corridor of habitat to enable endangered Black & White Ruffed Lemurs (Varecia variegata) to move from unprotected forest into a 74,816 acre rainforest reserve which Aqua-Firma helped to create in 2016. We began building this corridor last year with 2,023 trees:

https://www.aqua-firma.com/news/2022/12/22/madagascar-christmas-trees

Whilst this rewilding area is difficult to visit, you can join us in the northern part of the Mangabe reserve on our Pioneering Conservation Adventure - Lemurs, Golden Frogs & New Rainforest Reserve in October:

https://www.aqua-firma.com/experiences/lemurs-madagascar-rainforest-conservation-adventure-holiday

Central to this experience is staying in a pop-up adventure camp within the Mangabe rainforest reserve. Hosting the trip will be Aqua-Firma director, Ralph Pannell, formerly of the charity Rainforest Concern; alongside local leaders in conservation; and rural communities who are changing their styles of land use to live in harmony with the reserve they neighbour. Eight further species of lemur are already known to exist within Mangabe, including the second noisiest primate on our Planet: the Indri, which is also Madagascar's largest surviving lemur. We can also sometime see Madagascar's most attractive species of lemur, the Diademed Sifaka, as well as Mouse Lemurs, Dwarf Lemurs, Woolly Lemurs & Bamboo Lemurs.

There are some beautiful rivers in this area, close to which we can find Madagascar's very striking Golden Mantella Frog. This amphibian was thought to be extinct, but was rediscovered in 2005 within the Mangabe reserve. We sometimes see more than a hundred Golden Mantellas within a relatively small area.

For further information about Aqua-Firma journeys throughout Madagascar visit:

https://www.aqua-firma.com/experiences/lemurs-madagascar-rainforest-conservation-adventure-holiday

Black & Wite Ruffed Lemur Madagascar