{"id":6232,"date":"2012-09-04T21:38:45","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T05:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mlmlblog.wordpress.com\/?p=6232"},"modified":"2020-10-21T18:01:24","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T01:01:24","slug":"madagascar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/2012\/09\/04\/madagascar\/","title":{"rendered":"Adventures in Madagascar or On The Importance of Doing a Pilot Study!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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by\u00a0Angela Szesciorka, Vertebrate Ecology Lab<\/h3>\n

This summer I hopped on a plane, flying 29 hours one way (via Paris \u2014 ooh la la) over a period of three days to spend nearly a month on the island of Madagascar working on my pilot study.<\/p>\n

Madagascar, a former French colony until 1960, is the fourth largest island in the world. Don\u2019t let it fool you. It looks so tiny next to Africa, but it has 44 percent more area than California, and boasts more than 4,800 km of coastline.<\/p>\n

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Rocky coastline in Madagascar. Photo by Angela Szesciorka.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Most of the country's export revenue comes from textiles, fish\/shellfish, vanilla, and cloves. Newer sources of income include tourism, agriculture, and extracted materials (titanium ore, chromite, coal, iron, cobalt, copper and nickel). Madagascar provides half of the world's supply of sapphires! But with a GDP of around $20 billion, The Economist<\/em> rated Madagascar as the worst economy in 2011. Most of Madagascar's inhabitants are subsistence livers, meaning they live off of what they can grow or catch.<\/p>\n

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Local fisherman spear hunting for crabs. Photo by Angela Szesciorka.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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