1. Key questions:
1. Why is it so important to protect the environment in Madagascar? –
perhaps even more so than UK etc.
2. Why it is important to have sustainable development not just
conservation? (why do the locals need to make money / get food from
the land?)
3. Why would enforcing conservation be almost impossible in Masoala?
4. HOW can Madagascar ‘do’ sustainable development – and for each
thing, what makes it sustainable? [economically, socially AND
environmentally]
5. Which would you do and why?

2. The most important areas for
biological diversity were those that
were also least accessible. These
areas were included within the
park, where no-one is allowed to
harm the trees or animals. Local
park rangers were employed to
try and ensure that this happened.
The accessible areas were not
included in the park,
encouraging sustainable
development by allowing locals
to harvest timber and other
forest products.

3. Ecotourism
http://inhabitat.com/madagascars-tranquil-tsara-komba-eco-lodge-embraces-life-in-the-slow-
lane/

6. Sustainablility at Komba eco-lodge:
• building materials
• energy
• transport
• food
• employees

7. Sustainable logging
• which trees?
• workers?
• transport?

8. Vanilla farming

9. Butterflies

10. Remember the average daily
wage in Madagascar?

11. Key questions:
1. Why is it so important to protect the environment in Madagascar? –
perhaps even more so than UK etc.
2. Why it is important to have sustainable development not just
conservation? (why do the locals need to make money / get food from
the land?)
3. Why would enforcing conservation be almost impossible in Masoala?
4. HOW can Madagascar ‘do’ sustainable development – and for each
thing, what makes it sustainable? [economically, socially AND
environmentally]
5. Which would you do and why?