Happy New Year everyone! We hope you had a good start to 2021. We are waking up from the most unusual year we ever had as a lodge. After a year of no flights, no tourism, no income we still exist and that is amazing! ★ We managed to keep 20 staff employed during this […]
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Happy Christmas everyone, This is our seventh newsletter since the beginning of this project in May 2020. It is a great relief and joy how this initiative has been successfully supporting our community with monthly food donations since the start of the pandemic. In our last newsletter we told you that we are low on […]
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Please find the German below the English text! Dear friends and family, Thanks to your donations and your support, we were able to carry out another food donation at the beginning of October, which supports over 200 people for one month. There is more good news from Madagascar. After six months of closure, the schools […]
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Hello everyone! We hope you are well! Unusual times, indeed… We know that some of you are self employed like us. Our thoughts are specially with the many of you who also are in the tourism industry which came to a total halt. The sad news is that international tourist arrivals plunged 93% this month […]
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First results of our fundraiser are showing 🙌 Last month we started a fundraiser for our community on Go fund me: http://gf.me/u/xywj7z We are happy to report to you that we have collected enough money to purchase the first foods-support-packages. These will go to families in and around the Masoala Rainforest who have financial difficulties […]
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Masoala Forest Lodge is a sustainable tourism lodge that benefits the local communities through employment, purchasing of local products and services, and funding community and environmental projects. The lodge is now closed due to the covid-19 crisis, and must remain so, until the travel restrictions are lifted and tourism restarts. We are trying to keep […]
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We are busy extending our green energy capabilities by doubling the number of solar panels and batteries at the lodge. The solar panels we installed in 2016 provided us with more electricity than expected, we are very happy with the system and are looking forward to the possibilities ahead. Solar is the way to go!
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We from Masoala Forest Lodge are committed keeping the Masoala peninsula pristine for you, for us, for the people of #Masoala and for future generations . We cleaned the beaches of the Tampolo marine reserve last weekend. A two day event on which we picked up mostly plastic items that got washed up by the ocean. As there isn’t […]
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As an ecolodge we are enjoying the growing awareness about single use plastic and the trend towards avoiding the usage. Since now 9 years, we are not using single use plastics at our lodge. The last single use item we had was the little water bottle, our guest got on the boat which we replaced […]
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“It’s our time to rise up!” ✊️🌍 Over 1.4 million students joined the Global Climate Strikes yesterday. And this is just the start! We are looking forward to be part of the Friday school strikes against #climate-change when our little jungle pre-school opens after the holidays in April. We would love to do an educational […]
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