The holiday season in Huron County has proven to be a great time for shopping for meaningful gifts. The Red Book Challenge has been making the most of the generosity of the season by being present at several markets designed to promote good projects that help people around the world. Read more…
The Red Book Challenge Goes to Kenya! We attended the 27th annual Congress of the Primatological Society at the UN in Nairobi, Kenya for 6 days this August. My mom, Valerie, who is a financial advisor to the Red Book Challenge, Milliasse, who is the current conservation educator and Amber Read more…
It is high time I update you on all of our conservation education outreach activities in Fort Dauphin, Besakoa Ambany and Berenty Villages. Fort Dauphin: The biggest news so far is that the conservation club has a new club house! This clubhouse costs less in rent than it did for Read more…
Due to a poor internet connection and busy lifestyle it was hard to keep up with the blog posts in Madagascar. I am back home now and have so much to tell you about! Summary of the research: Although we didn’t see the most estrous periods ever we did see Read more…
Our observations with the lemurs continue. We decided to have breakfast at 6:30 am so that we could be with the lemurs early, around 7:00am. We found restaurant group and were happy to be identifying many of the lemurs. I conducted two focal follows and we took pictures of ourselves Read more…
April 9th 2018 Today we went to the school in Berenty village to give out 66 red books. Actually about half of the students weren’t in school today so we only gave out half. We also gave out the questionnaire and students were very serious in working out their answers. Read more…
April 8th 2018 I am sitting comfortably in Naturaliste after having a shower and putting on fresh clothes. It feels very nice to be clean and cool after being hot and sweaty all day. Today was Doria and my second morning with the lemurs. We were very excited to be Read more…
Hello All: With the holiday weekend over business started up again in Tana and the streets outside the hotel filled up with people before I even got out of bed at 8am. I could hear horns honking and people shouting through the crack in my window so I knew it Read more…
Me Again! I just had to share some photos of the special Easter buffet lunch I enjoyed here at the hotel. After lunch I decided to go for a walk in the park. I didn’t get very far before I saw our friend, the lady who sold both mom and Read more…
Hello Everyone! I have made it to Tana and have had a really nice breakfast and coffee. I am now sitting in the shady lobby looking out over the sunny park. It is a nice view because all the people of Tana are walking past dressed up in their Easter Read more…