This is Bird Note.

Lily Arison, René de Roland, is the Madagascar Program Director for the Peregrine Fund.

He works with some of the rarest birds in the world, like the Madagascar Fish Eagle.

Madagascar Fish Eagle is a critically endangered species.

And at the beginning of the 90s, when the Periguan found began to work in Madagascar, the population number was very low.

These large raptors only eat fish, which means they rely on the same diminishing wetlands and natural

resources as some fishing communities. For example, the fishermen used a wood canoe, and one

wood canoe can be used only for two years. So every two years, they must cut a big tree

to have a new canoe.

And Madagascar Fishigl uses big trees for nesting.

So the Peregrin Fund invested in durable fiberglass canoes that last closer to 16 years.

So each canoe saves roughly eight nesting trees.

Lily says this is just one way that community-centered conservation

can support Madagascar's people

and wildlife.

Our objective is to protect

the Madagascar fishing

and also to protect

the wetland for the future generations.

Learn more at our website, birdnote.org.

I'm Ariana Rimmel.