Education Centre

Today was a cruisy day after a couple of days of walking. So essentially, all that was achieved was a walk through the education centre at Ranomafana National Park, then a drive to Ambrositra. Although the education centre was kind of interesting, we didn't strain ourselves too hard today, and it was nice to have a bit of a break. While in the education centre, we learnt about a lady named Patricia Wright, who had started her masters degree studying the Lemurs but quickly discovered the threat they were under due to deforestation. As such she ended up spending a lot of her time in Ranomafana and Madagascar to adjust community behaviours, perceptions, and understanding around lemurs, while also trying to improve the sustainability and management of crops to minimise the need to cut down forests. As such, she was very active in the local community as well as the international conservation community and managed to raise enough money to create the Ranomafana National Park, as well as the research centre to allow students and academics to have a base of operations for lemur studies. She was a very impressive individual and managed to save many, many lemur species, raise millions of dollars for conservation, aid the community in sustainability, heavily contribute to research, and promote female education. All while she raised a child of her own, on her own. After we were done at the education centre, had lunch, and observed a nice waterfall nearby, we finished our drive to Ambrositra, and that was the end of our day. We arrived late, so we had dinner and went to bed.Read more