New blogger from Fianarantsoa and President of Youth environmentalist association, Vintsy and member of Young conservationists club. He shares his experience and passion of environment and rainforest preservation in his region , Fianarantsoa and the country biggest national park : Ranomafana.
http://tolotralemurclub.wordpress.com

Le club Fidy’ala mène des émissions radiophoniques hebdomadaires de 15 minutes pour transmettre des [...]

“(l’environnement) Il faut en parler pour les pousser eux-aussi à en parler et passer à l’action” Lyndah Hubert Ta

Podcast : Interview avec Lyndah Hubert Ta, présidente de JADE
http://www.foko-madagascar.org/podcasts/JADE.mp3
Écoutez la suite de l’interview avec la président des Jeunes Actifs pour le Développement, une ONG locale créé par la jeunesse de l’Atsinana à l’est de Madagascar. [...]

“(l’environnement) Il faut en parler pour les pousser eux-aussi à en parler et passer à l’action” Lyndah Hubert Ta

Podcast : Interview avec Lyndah Hubert Ta, présidente de JADE
http://www.foko-madagascar.org/podcasts/JADE.mp3
Écoutez la suite de l’interview avec la président des Jeunes Actifs pour le Développement, une ONG locale créé par la jeunesse de l’Atsinana à l’est de Madagascar. [...]

COP15 has seen the participation of FOKO’s in real time live. Patrick has again outdone himself by participating with the non governmental organization Jade in a direct videoconferencing with Copenhagen. Patrick proposed to gather questions in advance on his blog.

The work with Jade has started on November 21 during a day dedicated to “Tamatave youth [...]

LYVA from Antsirabe
Pour arrêter cet escalade, il faut que tout être humain soit conscient qu’il ne peut pas fuir ce problème. C’est-à-dire qu’il ne doit faire des actes qui nuisent à l’environnement. On doit donc arrêter la culture sur brûlis et la destruction des forêts. On doit utiliser des réfrigérateurs qui n’ont pas de produits [...]

Stéphane Ramananarivo has been the  coordinator based in Madagascar in charge of the very successful Blog Club project and the Green Foko environmental initiatives project. His efforts and commitment to development were often reported on GlobalVoices Online funded community, the Rising Voices’. Stéphane himself started blogging 2 years ago when he helped create Foko-Madagascar since [...]

A joint project between Zebu Nation and Foko focusing on reforestation in Madagascar had its first two outings in Antananarivo (Ambohitrarahaba) and Mahajanga (Vohitsoa). Zebu Nation is a group led by NY-based Malagasy singer Razia Said that dedicate a portion of each sale from their album entitled “Zebu Nation” to regrowing the vanishing forest [...]

With internet penetration at less than 1%, the true democratic reach of internet is still a long way from becoming reality in Madagascar. One way to bridge this gap is proposed by Christi Turner, digital outreach extraordinaire and Affick Gassard, journalist for Radio Ciel new Foko member from Antalaha. The contact was established thanks to [...]

The Malagasy blogging community is coming together with professional journalists and people curious about new media to discuss how citizen media can contribute to a more complete coverage of the crisis in Madagascar.
We will exchange ideas, lesson learned and shortcomings of digital media to inform and warn during crisis or events ( such as [...]

The direst circumstances sometimes bring people together in unexpected ways. It is fair to say that were it not for the act of vandalism in the National Park of the Sava region in Madagascar, Foko and Singer Razia Said and her group Zebu Nation may not have found out about their common perspective and [...]

Foko bloggers provided updates on issues not directly pertaining to the current crisis in Madagascar. Lomelle and Koloina wrote at length about the need to protect Malagasy National Parks. Lomelle explains the name change and the new objectives. The Malagasy National Park
“a pour défi de tripler l’étendu des aires protégées malgaches et d’inclure les [...]

FOKO’s mission FOKO wants to help Madagascar by bringing the world’s attention to Malagasy people. When often biodiversity and lemurs are in the spotlight, FOKO wants to focus on the Malagasy people and make them a crucial factor in their unique and threatened environment.

When we composed this description back in 2007, we knew very little about the strategies we were going to implement but were convinced that our works will require dedication and activism. After weeks of relaying the news on the latest politics crisis happening in Madagascar, Lova Rakotomalala brought our country's cause to the international mainstream media which admits to have a very little coverage on the bloodly events (watch his CNN interview here). As co-founder of Foko-Madagascar but also working with GlobalVoices Online, he spontaneously used all the resources he had in hands to share the most news possible from every sides and of course with great objectivity.

Les évennements tragiques de la semaine passée à Madagascar (26/01 - 07/02) ont été extrêmement coûteux d’un point de vue humain, communautaire et économique. Le retour à un quotidien stable et une certaine routine est la première priorité des citoyens malgaches.
Durant cette période de crise, Madagascar a aussi vu l’émergence d’une communauté journalistique dynamique, [...]

FOKO welcomed last week-end the last blog workshop of 2008. It was a special session as the national television channel RTA filmed FOKO and the bloggers in action. Diana and Pati were interviewed. We are hoping to post soon a video of the interviews. We are looking forward to reading more posts from our bloggers [...]

Few minutes after the E-bit gates on October 17th opened, dizains and dizains of students invaded the Palais des Sports et de la Culture. They first had to sit and watch the Ministry of Youth and Sports propaganda on HIV prevention and misuses of Internet before getting to our Free Quarter. Children from 6 to [...]