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	Lac Alaotra, Madagascar
		Lac Alaotra, Madagascar's largest lake, was the country's rice bowl, responsible for feeding a large part of the island's population.
		At one time the vast lake was surrounded by tropical forest, but today this has been cleared for farmland, and the hills are now bare and riddled with "lavaka," deep, red, eroded gullies.
		The Alaotra gentle lemur, endemic to these reedbeds, is disappearing faster than the lake.
	www.mongabay.com /06lac_alaotra.htm (148 words)

	Lake Alaotra biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Lake Alaotra, also Lac Alaotra, is Madagascar's largest lake, and forms the center of the island's most important rice-growing region.
		Lake Alaotra was declared a wetland of international importance under the international Ramsar Convention on February 2, 2003.
		The Alaotra Gentle Lemur is now limited to only 220 km² of remaining reedbeds, and in recent years the lemur population rapidly declined by 60%, from approximately 7,500 individuals in 1994 to 3,000 in 2001, mostly from habitat loss, but also from hunting by local villagers.
	lac-alaotra.biography.ms (273 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| England \| Bristol/Somerset \| Staff cheer birth of rare lemur
		The Lac Alaotra gentle lemur is endangered and staff say the new arrival is an important addition to the European Endangered Species Programme.
		The Lac Alaotra gentle lemur is threatened due to its highly restricted range and specialised habitat.
		The wild population struggles for survival in the rapidly disappearing marshes that fringe Lake Alaotra in the African nation, where they are hunted and kept as pets in local villages.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/england/bristol/somerset/3753953.stm (224 words)

	Alaotran gentle lemur - Hapalemur griseus alaotrensis: More Information - ARKive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Endemic to Madagascar and found only in and around the largest lake of the island (6); Lac Alaotra, situated in eastern Madagascar (1).
		Today the Alaotran gentle lemur inhabits the most restricted range of any lemur species, and is found mainly in the southwest corner of the lake, although a tiny, isolated population also persists on the northern shore (2).
		The area around Lac Alaotra is the largest area in Madagascar developed for rice cultivation and vast areas of the reed bed habitat have been burned and drained (1) to make way for paddy fields (6).
	www.arkive.org /species/GES/mammals/Hapalemur_griseus_alaotrensis/more_info.html (645 words)

	Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net
		Lake Alaotra was declared a Ramsar List of Wetlands of International Importance wetland of international importance under the international Ramsar Convention on February 2, 2003.
		These reedbeds provide the sole habitat of the endemic (ecology) endemic Alaotra Gentle Lemur ''(Hapalemur griseus alotrensis)''.
		There you find a list of all editors and the possibility to edit the original text of the article Lake Alaotra.
	www.mauspfeil.net /Lake_Alaotra.html (341 words)

	Royal Holloway Institute for Environmental Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The socio-economics of the region are being investigated in greater detail in a household survey being carried out by Fanamby as part of their socio-economic profile of the Daraina region, and therefore the Darwin project team attempted to gain supplementary information rather than repeat baseline socio-economic surveys.
		Lac Andranomanota, a sedge-fringed lake with water of extraordinary purity, is certainly spring-fed and showed no apparent change between the two visits.
		The wetland complex of Lac Sahaka performs ecological, hydrological and biogeochemical functions that support a high biological diversity (so far, particularly evident at habitat level) and the socio-economic well-being of local communities.
	www1.rhbnc.ac.uk /rhier/darwin-new/madtext-engl.htm (5487 words)

	TRIP REPORT OF VISITS TO COMMUNITIES IN LAC ALOATRA AND ANTANANDAVA ZONES OF STRATEGIC INTERVENTION FOR LDI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The road north from Ambatondrazaka, along the east side of Lac Alaotra is still as rough as I remember it from a visit almost a year and a half ago.
		After a kilometer, we are suddenly in Belempona, in front of the agricultural input provisioning center that was built with LDI assistance, overlooking the lake.
		View of Lac Alaotra, with a red hue from the accumulation of suspended silt in its water.
	ciifad.cornell.edu /html/ntu_report_mada2000.htm (9291 words)

	Paysage
		Les lacs Alaotra et Itasy sur les Hauts Plateaux, le lac Kinkony à l'ouest et les lacs Ihotry et Tsimanampetsotsa au sud.
		-- Le lac Tsimanampetsotsa est un lac d'eau saumâtre, peu profond et saturé de sulfate de chaux qui lui donne une couleur laiteuse.
		Il s'agit en particulier des lacs Manambolomaty (Befotaka, Soamalipo, Ankerika qui constituent des lacs de première importance pour le Pygargue de Madagascar.
	site.voila.fr /sitemadaclub/landscape/page.html (623 words)

	African Conservation Foundation - Madagascar - Conservation Projects.
		Their ultimate scope is to facilitate the dataflow of information about Madagascar, to improve activities, to give new inputs, to help to protect the high degree of endemism of animal and plant species, to enable a sustainable natural habitat for future generations of humans, animals and plants of Madagascar.
		The most famous animal in this region is the Alaotra Gentle Lemur (Hapalemur griseus alaotrensis), which is only found in the reed and papyrus beds and surrounding marshes of Lac Alaotra.
		Further animals that can typically be seen on and around Lac Alaotra are the Madagascar Tree Boa (Sanzinia madagascariensis) and the Malagasy Civet (Fossa fossana).
	www.africanconservation.org /madagascar.html (1204 words)

	IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: Hapalemur griseus ssp. alaotrensis
		This subspecies inhabits reed beds and surrounding marshes of Lac Alaotra, where it forages on the leaves and young shoots of the reed Phragmites and buds and pith of Papyrus.
		The burning of reed bed habitats, the capture of these lemurs fleeing these fire, the draining of lakes for rice irrigation and the use of reeds for mats, fish traps, screens, barriers and fencing pose considerable threats to this subspecies.
		This subspecies does not occur in any protected areas, although two proposed areas have been submitted to the Malagasy authorities for protection, a 2,000 ha patch along the north part of Lac Alaotra and a 3,000 ha patch along the central part.
	www.redlist.org /search/details.php?species=9676 (402 words)

	Madagascar, le guide : Histoire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		La superficie de ce grand lac fluctue suivant la saison (135 000 ha environ).
		Un projet de mise en valeur des terres situées autour du lac et d'électrification à partir des rapides de Menasaka sur le Maningory a été préparé par l'ingénieur Longuefosse entre 1918 et 1925.
		On lui donne volontiers le surnom de "grenier à riz de Madagascar" grâce à la fertilité des plaines alluvionnaires du lac Alaotra.
	www.madagascar-guide.com /fr/Pages/decouverte/terres/terres3/histoire.html (455 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Africa \| Malagasy human bones traders face trial
		Nearly 1,000 ancestral tombs have been raided over a period of a decade in a region to the east of the island, along the shores of Lake Alaotra.
		I have been told that there are about 100 inmates being held a prison at the main square in Ambatondrazaka, the biggest town in the Lac Alaotra region, northeast of the capital.
		Although Nicole and Hery, work at a local radio station, they too were reluctant to talk about the bones after receiving death threats for discussing this taboo subject on air.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/africa/3142367.stm (603 words)

	Madagascar, le guide : Les Hautes Terres
		Situé à une soixantaine de kilomètres de la capitale, le lac de Mantasoa est un lieu de villégiature idéal pour de nombreux Tananariviens.
		C'est à proximité du lac artificiel actuel que Jean Laborde, sur l'ordre de la Reine Ranavalona 1e, édifia un vaste ensemble industriel unique en son genre pour l'époque, et dans cette partie du monde.
		Nœud de transit entre Tananarive, la région du lac Alaotra et la côte est, Moramanga occupe une situation privilégiée.
	www.madagascar-guide.com /fr/Pages/decouverte/terres/terres3/terres3.html (1758 words)

	<AGRIS.WEB>CAT_JA Document 1426 of 36661 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Risques et intensification : exemple d'une demarche pour renouveler les references techniques pour la riziculture au lac Alaotra (Madagascar).
		Au lac Alaotra, premiere region rizicole malgache, le desengagement de l'Etat de la filiere riz s'est accompagne d'une aggravation des risques auxquels sont confrontes les paysans, alors que l'intensification de la riziculture se revele cruciale : la part excedentaire de paddy commercialisable tend a diminuer du fait du tres fort taux d'accroissement demographique (4%).
		Ce travail vise a proposer un dispositif d'etude pour l'elaboration des references techniques qui permettraient de mieux prendre en compte la nature et l'importance de ces risques selon les differents types d'exploitations et systemes de riziculture.
	www2.fao.org /BASIS/AGRIS/Web/Cat_ja/DDW?W%3Deni++INC+%27AFRICA%27%26M%3D1426%26K%3D96037342%26R%3DY%26U%3D1 (173 words)

	REPORT FROM FIELD VISIT TO FARMERS PRACTICING S (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		This town located on the southeastern side of Lac Alaotraâ€”Madagascar's largest inland body of waterâ€”is the commercial center for the region.
		The low-lying areas around the lake are considered as the country's "rice basket," having large stretches of suitable rice land.
		SRI, a system of rice intensification, developed in the 1980s in Madagascar, by raising rice yields significantly, could take some of the pressures of agricultural expansion off the watersheds, areas around the lake, and the marshes on the edge of the lake itself.
	ciifad.cornell.edu /june_01_tripreport/june_01_trip_report.cfm (8974 words)

	SPECIAL REPORT: MADAGASCAR 1 June 2000
		The impact on these is expected to last for next three to four years, depending on the economic life of these plantation crops.
		The effect of the drought is mostly confined to the South as well as Lake Alaotra region which was hardest hit.
		Crop damage caused by weather anomalies in the South-west, by the drought in the South and Lac Alaotra Regions, and by floods and high winds due to cyclones in the North-East, Central-East, Lac Alaotra and South-East, have resulted in serious foodcrops losses, in particular of food staples rice and maize.
	www.fao.org /WAICENT/faoinfo/economic/giews/english/alertes/2000/SRMAD500.htm (5222 words)

	Ph Png (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Voyager tout au long du Canal permet de croiser des pirogues et radeaux transportant des produits des localités environnantes (bananes, bambou, feuilles de ravinala séchées pour les toitures des cases,...) que l'on achemine sur Toamasina.
		Enfin, en continuant votre chemin, vous arrivez à Manambato, au bord du lac Rasoabe pour entamer une croisière sur le canal des Pangalanes.
		Un autre endroit calme, des villages toujours composés de cases en falafa et un autre lac (le lac Ampitabe) ; Akanin'ny Nofy est l'une des étapes conseillées pour passer la nuit.
	www.ifrance.com /Pensee-chretienne/Textes/Ph%20Png.htm (1566 words)

	Paludisme
		La région du Lac Alaotra, large dépression à 750m d'altitude, fait l'objet d'études paludométriques et entomologiques régulières depuis 1994.
		Cependant, depuis les années 80, le niveau d’eau du Lac diminue et le système d’irrigation de la plaine s’obstrue faute d’entretien.
		Le village de Saharevo semble là encore intermédiaire entre Ankazobe et le Lac Alaotra, pour un portage qui reste toujours inférieur à 2% des sujets pendant l’hiver, alors qu’il s’élève progressivement en Janvier.
	www.pasteur.mg /palu.htm (4925 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Africa \| Madagascar human bones trial ends
		In all, 75 suspects were tried, including a doctor and a mayor, and 42 people were convicted.
		They were all from peasant communities surrounding the shores of Lac Alaotra, Madagascar's biggest lake.
		The traffickers apparently believed they could make a lot of money out of the sale of bones, up to $4,000 a kilo, and that there would be willing customers.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/3039513.stm (266 words)

	The Annotated Ramsar List: Madagascar
		Le Lac Alaotra: les zones humides et bassins versants.
		The site is an excellent representative example of the natural wetlands of the eastern Madagascar biogeographical region and includes nine of twenty inland wetland types identified in the Ramsar system of classification, as well as seven of the 10 human-made wetland types.
		The site provides habitat for three endemic species, all of which are seriously threatened -- the grey lemur Hapalemur griseus alaotrensis, the Alaotra grebe Tachybaptus rufolavatu, and the Madagascar pochard Aythya innotata - as well as for five very rare, indigenous species of fish and some 30 species of waterbirds.
	www.ramsar.org /profile/profiles_madagascar.htm (939 words)

	Gray Gentle Lemur (Hapalemur griseus)
		Hapalemur griseus alaotrensis: This subspecies can only be found around Lac Alaotra (Groves, 1988).
		This subspecies lives in reed-beds and floating reed-islands, mostly of reeds of the genus Phragmites around Lac Alaotra (Groves, 1988; Pollock, 1986).
		Hapalemur griseus occidentalis: This subspecies is found in a small rainforest region in the northwest of Madagascar and between Maintirano and Belo-Tsiribihina in western Madagascar (Groves, 1988; Curtis et al.
	members.tripod.com /uakari/hapalemur_griseus.html (3696 words)

	Dilag-Tours, Your Tour-Operator at Madagascar, journey to lake Alaotra
		Dilag-Tours, Your Tour-Operator at Madagascar, journey to lake Alaotra
		Summary: The lake Alaotra is the biggest lake within the island.
		It is in the north-east of the capital in a distance of approximate 270 Kilometres by car.
	www.dilag-tours.ch /en/madagascar_lake_alaotra.htm (151 words)

	Nat' Academies Press, Vetiver Grass: A Thin Green Line Against Erosion (1993)
		This time, a commercial farmer produced about 10 hectares of nursery, and about 90 primary schools in the Lac Alaotra area planted nurseries of 1 hectare each.
		Bredero's next major challenge is to prove vetiver's usefulness in preventing the devastating gullies and ravines (known as lavaka in the Malgache language) from chewing up more land.
		They are so big and there are so many of them that the sandstone formations north of the capital and around Lac Alaotra constitute an alarming sight.
	books.nap.edu /books/0309042690/html/32.html (6012 words)

	Lac Alaotra
		Lac Alaotra, Madagascar Lac Alaotra, Madagascar's largest lake, was the country's
		Igapo Forest Damming the Amazon The Death of Lac Alaotra, Madagscar Section 7: Forest
		...[www.mongabay.com/0604.htm] Lac Alaotra, Madagascar The Liquid Forest Lac Alaotra,
	www.mongabay.com /topics/Lac_Alaotra.htm (250 words)

	www.manx.net
		The Alaotran gentle lemur is one of the rarest primate species in the world and is the only primate known to depend exclusively on swamps for its habitat.
		It lives in the reed beds around Lac Alaotra, the largest lake in Madagascar, where it eats shoots and leaves of reeds and papyrus in the swamps.
		With less than four thousand surviving in the wild, this attractive species is losing its habitat as the swamps are drained to make rice paddies.
	www.manx.net /default.asp?id=18&articleid=4929 (409 words)

	Buy.com - The Aye-Aye and I: A Rescue Mission in Madagascar : Gerald Durrell : ISBN 0671884395
		Once thought to be extinct, the Aye-aye, the beast with the magic finger, still lurks, though in fast dwindling numbers, in the forests of Madagascar.
		Durrell's mission to help save this strange creature turns into a madcap journey in which you will meet not only the enigmatic Aye-aye, but the catlike Fosa, the Flat-tailed tortoise, the Gentle lemurs of Lac Alaotra, and the Malagasy chameleons, among others.
		Truly nothing escapes Durrell's sharp eye, whether he is describing the great zoma (market), the village dances, the treacherous bridges and river crossings, the strange foods and stranger music, or the vagaries of local officialdom.
	www.buy.com /prod/The_Aye_Aye_and_I_A_Rescue_Mission_in_Madagascar/q/loc/106/30426393.html (644 words)

	recherche agricole à Madagascar-FOFIFA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		La région moyen-est s'étend autour du lac Alaotra.
		Renommée pour sa production rizicole, la zone du lac Alaotra est une des rares régions qui dégage actuellement des excédents de production pour approvisionner les villes - environ 100.000 tonnes de riz paddy par an.
		Les maladies existant autour de la lac Alaotra ont été inventoriées.
	www.mg.auf-francophonie.org /madag_ct/rec/fofifa/cala.htm (1234 words)

	Ecosystem Profile: Madagascar, Madagascar and Indian Ocean Islands
		From Madagascar it includes the Madagascar serpent eagle (Eutriorchis astur), Alaotra grebe (Tachybaptus rufolavatus), Madagascar pochard (Aythya innotata), Madagascar fish eagle (Haliaeetus vociferoides), and Sakalava rail (Amaurornis olivieri).
		In the northern part of the country, the Trust pioneered a breeding program for the angonoka tortoise (Geochelone yniphora) and flat-tailed tortoise (Pyxis planicauda), which has resulted in the creation of Baly Bay National Park to protect the angonoka in its natural habitat and the trial reintroduction of captive-bred tortoises.
		Trust staff, working with a local Malagasy NGO, maintain a research presence at Lac Alaotra as part of the effort to establish a protected area for the "bandro" or gentle lemur.
	www.cepf.net /xp/cepf/where_we_work/madagascar/full_strategy.xml (8341 words)

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