Partnership in Practice: Making Conservation Work in Madagascar

Richard will give a campus-wide lecture starting at 4:30 on the role of community-based engagement in conservation efforts in Madagascar and beyond. Community-based engagement has become a major goal for conservation efforts in Madagascar and elsewhere. But who is "the community"? What does "engagement" actually mean? What role does the state have in these activities? Drawing on over thirty years of experience in grass-roots conservation at Beza Mahafaly in southwest Madagascar, this culture will argue that case-based answers to these questions have an important contribution to make in developing a strategic approach to conservation.