News

May 7th, 2014

Meet the ’SOS Papangue’ team on La Réunion

The Réunion Harrier, or 'Papangue' in Creole, is the only endemic raptor that breeds on the…
March 24th, 2014

The savannahs as seen by the humanities and social sciences

The online humanities and social science review «ethnographiques.org», a place where the many…
March 21st, 2014

Workshops to plan how the savannahs can be enhanced

On March 19th, GEPOG hosted the first of a series of workshops whose aim is to prepare a plan…

Latest fieldwork missions concerning Acacia mangium

Between April and June 2015 the most recent fieldwork studies concerning Acacia mangium took place in the four test areas along the littoral.
Verifying the species, pulling up plants or chopping them down, measuring heights and sometimes using geolocators, meant that the teams of volunteers spent several days surrounded by acacias!

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It was an opportunity of study the species speed of growth, enough to overtake and smother the manioc plants if not regularly cleared by the farmers ...

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Anna Stier
Project Leader, Life+ Cap DOM

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