Great news! This morning the research article I have been working on for quite some time relating to the Red Book Challenge was published in the American Journal of Primatology.
I hope you will be excited to read this article which highlights our successes and failures running a small scale conservation education initiative in Southern Madagascar. Articles such as this one are so few because for one, publishers are more likely to publish articles by established conservation educators. Another reason, I believe is that people are sometimes reluctant to publish their missteps in conservation. These missteps are great learning opportunities however, so I am extremely grateful to the American Journal of Primatology for the chance to publish this research article.
In the article you will read about past and future projects which are just getting going now. In the near future we will have a new mini-documentary on our You Tube channel (@amberwalker-bolton8404) about the Sanitary Pad Project we are currently working on. I want to point out that we did not hire professional camera operators for this small project but a professional editor. But because of some of the cuts in the original footage, the editor had a tougher time. So we will always hire professional camera operators in the future, I feel.
Please feel free to comment here if you would like a copy of the accepted version of the article. Otherwise, you will have to use your institution’s credentials to access the article here: https://doi.org/10.1002/ajp.23459. We were unable to afford the Open Access option because it is over 5,000 CAD in fees to make the article Open Access. If there are any organizations or individuals out there with money to spend at the end of the year for a good cause, let us know if you would like to sponsor the article to become Open Access.
There is a big list of thank-yous for making this article happen. Please check out the Acknowledgements section of the article for your name!
