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wildmadagascar.org December 27, 2010 New satellite data reveals active burning in Sava, a region in Madagascar that has been ravaged by illegal logging for rosewood and other valuable rainforest timber. Click to enlarge According to data provided by the Fire Alert System, a joint monitoring program run by NASA, Conservation International and the University of Maryland, more than 1,100 fires have burned in Andapa, Antalaha, Sambava, and Vohimarina—districts where the bulk of Madagascar's illegal logging is taking place—since October 1. Roughly a quarter of these fires have burned in, or on the margins, of forest areas. A handful of fires have occurred in protected areas, including Masoala National Park, a World Heritage Site that has been besieged by illegal logging since last year. A biological survey in October turned up evidence of as many as 10,000 people living in the park. The remote sensing data seems to support on-the-ground reports of a large number of fi...

Mediacoop.ca France's Total and US based Madagascar Oil tangle with military governments to push tar sands projects forward by Macdonald Stainsby Total's proposed tar sands operation in Madagascar is potentially the dirtiest mining operation its kind in the world, in a region where the local people have few options but to live next to it. If, as some charge, Total helped bring down a democratically elected government in order to install a regime that would favour their tar sands project, it's likely that international campaigns against Total and their social and environmental record could well expand. In 2008 Total bought a 60% stake in the Bemolanga tar sands field, a field that they predict may operate at just under 200 000 barrels per day of bitumen using strip mining techniques developed in Alberta, Canada. The bitumen is less 'pure' in place, which means it will produce more toxic tailings and require even more water usage than the already notorious strip ...

Mondoblog Bonjour Papa Noël : En ce jour de noël (votre jour préféré) et du nouvel an qui sera célébré dans quelques jours, Je voulais simplement vous dire que, quand vous descendrez du ciel avec vos jouets familiers, n'oubliez pas mon cadeau. Je veux de l' électricit é !!! Rien que de l'électricité !!! La SENELEC  nous électrocute  chaque jour Papa Noel, l'électricité est un vrai problème dans mon pays. Malgré plus de 500 milliards de F CFA qui auraient été injectés dans la SENELEC, la Société Nationale d'Electricité ne parvient toujours pas à offrir aux usagers un service digne et satisfaisant et continue de plonger mon pays dans l'obscurité et l'insécurité la plus totale. Tous les secteurs de l'économie, tous les ménages sont touchés, aucun Sénégalais n'est épargné, même ta ville préférée de Ziguinchor est touchée. Les hôpitaux sont souvent délestés. Il y a quelques mois, trois enfants prématurés sont morts dans les crèches, suite à ces lon...