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  • Cattle drawn carts on sand, Mandrare river, Madagascar.
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  • Local rickshaws (Pousse-pousses) introduced to Madagascar by the British missionaries. Majunga Town. NW MADAGASCAR  2005
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  • Local woman with sandalwood face mask - used as sun protection and a beautification. Isalo National Park, MADAGASCAR<br />
 2005
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  • Antandroy woman smoke-drying fish. It has started to rain so these fish caught yesterday can not be sun-dried so they are using smoke to preserve them. Antandroy village of Lavanono. Southern MADAGASCAR
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  • Antandroy woman smoke-drying fish. It has started to rain so these fish caught yesterday can not be sun-dried so they are using smoke to preserve them. Antandroy village of Lavanono. Southern MADAGASCAR
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  • Piroques or outrigger canoes going out to sea from the Bombetoka delta for the day to fish. The narrow wooden canoes with their one stabalizer are remarkably sea worthy. The sails are made from cotton and repaired regularly with odd pieces of sacking to make an interesting patchwork.<br />
Mahajunga.  Western MADAGASCAR
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  • Sakalava woman working with Raffia from the Raffia palm (Raffia rarinifera) The fibres are combed out from the leaves once the leaves have dried.  They are either left their natural colour or dyed with various natural dyes. These are then woven into hats, baskets and mats that are very characteristic of Madagascar. There is a project in the Ankarafantsika Nature Reserve helping several local communities to sustainably yield the palm leaves and thereby make a living from the forest and earn money rather than live off the forest causing more habitat distruction.<br />
Ankarafantsika Nature Reserve, Western deciduous forest. MADAGASCAR
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  • Antandroy fishermen pulling pirogue out to sea at pre-dawn. The narrow wooden canoes with their one stabalizer are remarkably sea worthy. The sail is made from cotton or woven plasitc sacking. Lavanono fishing village, south coast of MADAGASCAR
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  • Vezo fisherman bringing catch ashore. Lavanono (Antandroy area) fishing village, south coast of MADAGASCAR
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  • Mahafaly herder (Those-who-make-taboos). Near Ampanihy, south-west coast of MADAGASCAR<br />
The Mahafaly probably arrived to Madagascar around the 12th centurey from Africa and live in the sw desert areas around Ampanihy and Ejida. They are farmers, with maize, sorgho and sweet potoatoes as their main crops and cattle rearing occupies a secondary place. They kept their independence under their own chiefs until French occupation and still keep the bones of some of their old chiefs - this is the 'Jiny' cult. The villages usually have a sacrificial post, the 'hazo mango' on their east side where sacifices are made. Their large rectangular stone tombs which are decorated with wooden carvings 'aloalo' and the horns of all the zebu slain at the funereal are very eleborate.
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  • Betsileo house near Ambalavao town. South-central highlands of MADAGASCAR. With it dramatic granite boulders, this area is probably the most scenic in the whole country.  The houses are usually double-storied, built from home-made mud bricks with small, wooden windows.<br />
This area inhabited mainly by the Betsileo tribe are masters in rice cultivation. Rice is the staple food for most of the people in Madagascar.
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  • Betsileo-sud village of Anjamany. South-central highlands of MADAGASCAR<br />
The Betsileo tribe are masters in rice cultivation and terraces. Rice is the staple food for most of the people in Madagascar. Zebu are used to 'churn' the soil instead of ploughing so they can plant the rice.  This boy has been chasing the zebu in paddies which is a muddy job.
    MA8131_Betsileo_village_scene.jpg
  • Bottle-nosed dolphin by-catch. (Tursiops truncatus) Small Antandroy fishing village of Lavanono on the southern coast of MADAGASCAR. Apparently they catch +- one per year in their artisanal nets.  This was caught from a pirogue or outrigger dugout canoe. The meat was sold for human consumption to the local villages for 35 cents, US per kilogram.
    MA5475_Dolphin_by-catch.jpg
  • Making metal tools in Antandroy village. Houses are made from the Endemic Didiereacaea plants. Southern MADAGASCAR
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  • Piroque in Diego Suarez
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  • Golden crowned sifaka on edge of clear cut forest {Propithecus tattersalli} Madagascar
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  • Erosion caused by gold mining, in forest encroaching on refuge of Golden crowned sifaka, Madagascar
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  • Well for panning mining spoils from gold mining, Andranotsimaty village, Madagascar. This mining encroaches on last remaining refuge of golden crowned sifakas, an endangered endemic primate.
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  • Gold mining pits dug in previous rainforest habitat,  Andranotsimaty village, Madagascar. This mining encroaches on last remaining refuge of golden crowned sifakas, an endangered endemic primate.
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  • Bottle-nosed dolphin by-catch. (Tursiops truncatus) Small Antandroy fishing village of Lavanono on the southern coast of MADAGASCAR. Apparently they catch +- one per year in their artisanal nets.  This was caught from a pirogue or outrigger dugout canoe. The meat was sold for human consumption to the local villages for 35 cents, US per kilogram.
    Pete_Oxford_MA5464_Dolphin_by-catch.tif
  • Local argiculture<br />
Eastern Madagascar<br />
MADAGASCAR
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  • Local argiculture<br />
Eastern Madagascar<br />
MADAGASCAR
    20181024_Local_argiculture_41.tif
  • Rice planting<br />
Local argiculture<br />
Eastern Madagascar<br />
MADAGASCAR
    20181024_Rice_planting_40.tif
  • Rice planting<br />
Local argiculture<br />
Eastern Madagascar<br />
MADAGASCAR
    20181024_Rice_planting_37.tif
  • Artesanal fish trap<br />
Eastern Madagascar<br />
MADAGASCAR
    20181027_Artesanal_fish_trap_41.tif
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