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Title
les colonies d’oiseaux marins des futures aires protegees marines et côtieres du sud-ouest de l’ouest et du nord de madagascar : diagnostic écologique et socio-économique pour une exploitation durable de la ressource
Authors
BEMANAJA Etienne
Research Topic
Abstract
The seabird colonies of Madagascar are poorly studied and undergo a strong uncontrolled exploitation
from the coastal people who do poaching, hunting, and egg harvesting. In spite of their low numbers, the
seabirds of the Malagasy coast have a specific importance at the regional level. Some colonies form an
important tourist attraction and constitute a source of considerable income for the local population.
However on most islands many coastal inhabitants use the marine birds as source of protein by direct
consumption and regard them as a source of money earning by sale of the eggs and adults. The current
political government will which aims at creating vast marine and coastal protected areas on the as well as
the presence of the some organizations for the conservation support the objectives of this work of thesis
which are articulated on the conservation and the sustainable management of the seabirds of Madagascar.
The ecological diagnosis of the resources to be protected, accompanied by the socio-economic diagnosis
by the current use of these sectors will be the foundation of a research that must lead to specific proposals
aiming at setting up a durable exploitation of the resources and the conservation of the biodiversity of
Madagascar.
Volume
1
Date of publication
September 15, 2009
Institution (University)
Institut Halieutique et des Sciences Marine Université
Page numbers (pp)
204