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Madagascar 2016 – A comprehensive list of species I have seen.
Hello everyone, Only recently, I returned (slightly earlier than planned) from my latest adventure to the ancient and most biologically diverse islands on the planet, the island of Madagascar. For the past few months I have been traveling the eastern and central regions of this most magical of places, sleeping rough in a tent the middle of the rainforest to hiking through some of the most…
Adventure of a Lifetime – Frogs, Lemurs and More.
Hi everyone, It has been a while since I have updated the website and made an entry upon it, so here is me making up for it with my announcement that I will be embarking on my next trip to Madagascar, the island of marvels. It has been an incredibly long time since I started to plan this epic adventure, with months of planning, excitement, nerves and reading (lots of reading). It will be a…
Diurnal Hike at Mitsinjo (Analamazoatra) Forest Station – Video.
My first actual day (Excluding the travel day) into my trip to Madagascar whilst doing work at the Amphibian Survival Assurance Center of Andasibe (ASACA), a part of Association Mitsinjo.
Red-spotted Bright-eyed Frog (Boophis rappiodes) offspring. © 2015 – Joshua Ralph – All Rights Reserved An interview with Joshua Ralph, Batrachologist and Conservationist with MantellaMan Conservation, an Amphibian Survival Alliance Partner. Amphibians the world over are facing probably the world’s most serious extinction crisis. What are your thoughts on the future prospects…
Golden Mantella (Mantella aurantiaca) at Menalamba – Video
Golden Mantella (Mantella aurantiaca), insitu at the Menalamba locality within the Torotorofotsy Wetlands Reserve, eastern Madagascar.
Malagasy Striped Rain Frog (Plethodontohyla mihanika), at the Bakozetra locality of the Torotorofotsy Wetlands Reserve, Madagascar.
It is a member of the Microhylidae family and like a lot of species, very little is known about this one in particular.
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Threats to Madagascar’s Amphibians – Basic Run Down.
Over the course of our planets history, thousands upon thousands of species of Fauna and Flora has both flourished and blossomed into marvelous species that can be found today, or they have disappeared off the face of earth, either naturally over the course of time or faced severe threats caused by none other than our very own species. Homo sapiens throughout its existence, has caused the…
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Yellow Mantella (Mantella crocea) specimen.
Bakozetra locality, Torotorofotsy Wetlaands Reserve, Eastern Madagascar.
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Malagasy Nature Photographs – Bakozetra locality, Torotorofotsy Wetlands Reserve.
Hi Everyone, Within this photograph blog entry, I will be in the Torotorofotsy Wetlands Reserve, located north of the town of Andasibe. Continuing the day that I encountered one of Madagascar’s most iconic species of frog, the Golden Mantella (Mantella aurantiaca), my guide Fanoo and I decided to travel slightly further north to a different part of the Torotorofotsy. Bakozetra is like I said,…
Malagasy Nature Photographs – Menalamba locality, Torotorofotsy Wetlands Reserve.
Hi Everyone, Within this photograph blog entry, I will be in the Torotorofotsy Wetlands Reserve, located north of the torn of Andasibe. Being one of my first days in Madagascar and with the breeding season of a few species I so desperately wanted to see nearly over, Devin Edmonds (Director of the ASACA facility in Andasibe) and myself made an attempted to find a species that pretty much kicked…
Red Horned Crab Spider (Gasterocantha sp.) insitu at Andasibe-Mantadia National Park, Madagascar.
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