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P A G E 6
The CLP or “Village Guard” Program
By Dr. Erik Patel
You may remember in the last newsletter issue an
about DLC-SC supporting the emplacement of new boundary
signs along the edge of Marojejy National Park. These new signs
are part of an important collaboration between DLC-SC and
Madagascar National Parks (MNP) and may soon be expanded to
include actual concrete “bournes” or official boundary markers.
It is not enough to work on our own towards conservation
objectives in the SAVA region – it is critical that we do what we
can to cooperate with and enable the Malagasy government in
its effort to protect and manage the protected areas of the
region. To that end, we have been working with MNP to support
a “village guard” or CLP program, which enlists locals that live in
villages along the periphery of Marojejy. A first step for the
program is equipping the new guards for outdoor work in the
rainforests of the Marojejy massif. We have recently
transported to Madagascar the last of more than 70 very sturdy
American-made raincoats. We have many kind colleagues
traveling to Madagascar to thank for the raincoat transport, as
well as the participants in the recent Duke Alumni tour of
Madagascar! Otherwise we would have been obliged to spend a
fortune on shipping the raincoats. Thankfully, Erik has been able
to purchase rubber boots for the village guards in Madagascar,
thus avoiding complicated transport issues.
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Lanto distributing DLC-SC raincoats to village
guards
Photo courtesy of Lanto Andrianandrasana
Village guards in Andratamarina wearing DLC raincoats and boots
Photo by Lanto Andrianandrasana