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New Marojejy Poster Completed
Educational posters can serve as a low-cost and eye-catching means to gain student
interest and attention. In many developing countries such as Madagascar, local schools
seldom have much displayed on the walls and for many local businesses the only avail-
able posters are corporate advertisements for Coca Cola or foreign pop-stars such as Brit-
ney Spears and wrestler John Cena (hugely popular in Sambava actually!).
One of SAVA Conservation’s environmental education goals is to develop and distribute
posters with environmental messages such as the bushmeat poster we created last year
(see SAVA Newsletter July 2013). A new Marojejy National Park poster has recently been
completed by renowned UK natural history artist Janet Mary Robinson (her blog:
with the guidance of Erik Patel. The poster features the biodiversity
and ecotourism potential of Marojejy National Park. The heart of the design is an abso-
lutely gorgeous original painting by Janet surrounded by professional photographs
(courtesy of Nick Garbutt, Kurt Baumgartner, and Jeff Gibbs). With text primarily in the
local Tsimihety dialect (with some English translation) the poster is intended for rural
schools where it is being distributed. Similar posters for other protected areas in Mada-
gascar have already been created by Janet and are viewable online in her Natural History
Gallery:
SAVA Conservation
thanks Madagascar National Parks and the McCrae Conservation and Education Fund for
their collaboration on this poster.
by Dr. Erik Patel