Razafindravony Lovasoa E, Donohue Mariah E, Docherty Michael A, Maggy Ashley M, Lazasoa Rehodo S, Rafanomezantsoa Onjaniaina J S, Ramarjaona Richard A, Randriarimanana Jean N M, Rafanambinantsoa Andrianirina O, Randrianarivelo Hajanirina, Wright Patricia C
Environmental Education Department, Centre ValBio, Ranomafana, Ifanadiana, Madagascar.
Department of Biology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA.
Am J Primatol. 2023 May;85(5):e23477. doi: 10.1002/ajp.23477. Epub 2023 Feb 9.
A total of 94% of lemur species are currently threatened with extinction and more than 17 species of giant lemur are already extinct. To help prevent the extinction of Madagascar's remaining lemurs, Dr. Patricia Wright initiated conservation programs in the Ranomafana region of southern Madagascar in the 1990s. These continued and expanded, and in 2003 were consolidated with Dr. Wright's research activities when Center ValBio ("CVB") was founded in 2003. CVB believes in the "One Health" approach in understanding the relationship between humans and the environment, and one of their core principles is that effective conservation is science-based. CVB's environmental education (EE) programs (discussed herein) operate in various primary schools surrounding Ranomafana national park (RNP). The all-Malagasy team consists of long-term conservation educators as well as young intern teachers, who together address the issues of valuing lemurs and the forests that they require to survive. In this paper, we will describe three of CVB's EE programs and evaluate their impact. The primary tool used to assess impact was an analysis of pre- and post -intervention test scores evaluated using a Kruskal-Wallis test. We show that these programs (1) are popular, (2) produce concrete outputs that can change rural villages, and (3) improve local knowledge on the importance of biodiversity and sustainable development.
目前，总共94%的狐猴物种面临灭绝威胁，超过17种巨型狐猴已经灭绝。为了帮助防止马达加斯加现存狐猴灭绝，帕特里夏·赖特博士于20世纪90年代在马达加斯加南部的拉努马法纳地区启动了保护项目。这些项目得以持续并扩大，2003年，当瓦尔比奥中心（“CVB”）成立时，与赖特博士的研究活动合并。CVB在理解人类与环境关系方面秉持“同一健康”理念，其核心原则之一是有效的保护是以科学为基础的。CVB的环境教育（EE）项目（本文将进行讨论）在拉努马法纳国家公园（RNP）周边的多所小学开展。全马达加斯加团队由长期的保护教育工作者以及年轻的实习教师组成，他们共同探讨重视狐猴以及狐猴赖以生存的森林的问题。在本文中，我们将描述CVB的三个EE项目并评估其影响。用于评估影响的主要工具是对干预前后测试成绩进行分析，并使用克鲁斯卡尔 - 沃利斯检验进行评估。我们表明，这些项目（1）很受欢迎，（2）产生了能够改变乡村的具体成果，（3）提高了当地对生物多样性和可持续发展重要性的认识。
