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Supporting wildlife conservation & Promoting human health
People:
Families & individuals that rely on lemurs & other wildlife for food: "hundreds of millions of people worldwide rely on terrestrial wildlife for food" (p. 224).
Leads to transmission of pathogens (Ebola, HIV, etc.)
BIG IMPACT
: Lowered quality of life; battling with chronic health problems, diseases, etc.
Madagascar is considered one of the "poorest countries in the world" (p. 229), where about three quarters of the population live in extreme poverty.
Limited access to healthcare, proper nutrition, etc.
Place:
Geographical makeup of Madagascar: It is home to unique variety of species: "More than 90% of Madagascar's mammal and reptile species can only be found in that country" (p. 226)
Because of this, lemur population is considered endangered (in addition to their long reproduction time)
An increasing population in Madagascar has led to energy demands, and deforestation rates.
People:
"Colonial conservation", where Indigenous peoples were expulsed by colonizers, contributing to a growing amount of protected land.
People:
The incrase in protected land and species were enacted by the government & colonizers that did not consider needs of people living on the land, who are reliant on the "food, livlihoods, and spiritual sanctuary [the land] it provided" (p. 227).
People:
Madagascar Protected Area System (SAPM) have shared governance models in some areas, allowing some communities to have some voice in creating protected area management plans (p. 228).
Place:
Maroantsetra is described as "land-locked" due to their lack of access to imports. (Only one road leads out of the town).
Individuals rely on ethnomedicines for medical treatment as opposed to medical care (expensive & inaccessible)
People:
Movements to build more roads & increasing land can increase zoonotic disease spread (p. 238).
Place:
Madagascar experiences cyclones & year round rain!
Majority of crops grown are rice (paddy fields)
Cash crops (accessible) are emphasized over nutrition.
Carbohydrates constitute "80% of Malagasy diet by weight" (p. 232), meaning their diets are not varied in nutrients.
People:
MAERERY (Madagascar Health and Environmental Research) has conducted research on the makeup of diets of families in Madagascar; concluded that nutrition was not enough.
People:
The Wildlife Conservation Society launched a campaign to encourage people to protect their environments.
Limited hunting of bushmeat.
Less variety within diet & less nutrition.
Solution:
The Wildlife Conservation Society is also conducting research on what animals can be hunted sustainably (p. 255), such as wild pigs, chicken, fish, etc.
The WCS is looking at chicken & wild fish as alternative meat sources. They also plan to establish 150 demonstration farms to encourage the public & provide materials for camilies to begin their own food sources.
Ideal Outcome :
Less decreases in animal diversity, less deforestation.
Limits disease transmittance!
Problem: / Place
Livestock have been contracting a disease, the Newcastle disease, treatable by vaccine.
People:
MAHERY, Malagasy Institute of Veterinary Vaccines (IMVAVET) and the Wildlife Health Network worked together to create a termostable vaccine (p. 256) for easy transport.
Increasing acceptability of vaccine through community education & outreach is a focus; members of communities are hesitant about vaccine.
People:
Stigma around eating bushmeat for food: considered "peasant food" (p. 242).