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  • washing sediment traps are fun!
  • emma supervises a volunteer with water filtering
  • Emma filtering water samples as part of her long term research into the influx of sediment and nutrients into the Bay and its impacts
  • after planting we put on a spectical for the villagers organised by Stephane and Nad and their team from Toliara perform
  • year old mangrove planted by HONCO, all trees are protected by the villagers
  • Planting begins
  • seeds at the ready
  • ready to plant seeds
  • mangrove flats
  • villagers, ReefDoc staff and volunteers head out to the mangrove flats
  • benjamin takes to villagers about replantation procedure
  • Benjamin and Carola past ReefDoc staff set up HONCO to help restore mangroves this is the first big replantation day in the north of the Bay
  • mangroves are cut down for firewood
  • there should be a dense littoral forest of mangroves here!
  • whats remaining of southern mangroves of the Bay
  • the mangroves on the shores of the Bay south (pic here) and north have been cut down
  • christmas party at IHSM
  • open air tanks part of aqualab
  • main hall and labs
  • Main entrance looking towards the sea
  • inside main entrance IHSM
  • Main entrance to IHSM from the Rue du Porte road Mahavatse Toliara
  • Main staff of the IHSM Institut Halieutique et des Science Marines the main marine research institute of Madagascar based in Toliara city
  • marine shell exhibit donated by Mr. Alana Bonard of Saxaphone Hotel
  • map of porposed FAD sites