Thank You, Madagascar, by Alison Jolly
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Thank You, Madagascar, by Alison Jolly
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Madagascar is one of the world’s natural jewels, with over ninety per cent of its wildlife found nowhere else on Earth. Few people knew it better than the pioneering primatologist and conservationist, Alison Jolly. Thank You, Madagascar is her eyewitness account of the extraordinary biodiversity of the island, and the environment of its people. At the book’s heart is a conflict between three different views of nature. Is the extraordinary forest treasure-house of Madagascar a heritage for the entire world? Is it a legacy of the forest dwellers’ ancestors, bequeathed to serve the needs of their living descendants? Or is it an economic resource to be pillaged for short-term gain and to be preserved only to deliver benefits for those with political power? Exploring and questioning these different views, this is a beautifully written diary and a tribute to Madagascar.
Thank You, Madagascar, by Alison Jolly- Amazon Sales Rank: #1049222 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-03-12
- Released on: 2015-03-12
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review "Jolly's work offers a rare glimpse into the sociology, psychology, science, and politics that are important to any conservation effort. . . . The information is presented in a forthright and unassuming manner, avoiding the complex terminology typical of many books on ecology and conservation. . . . Highly recommended." (CHOICE)“Amounts to more than the sum of its wildly detailed parts. It’s not just Jolly’s memoir; it’s a memoir of the conservation movement in Madagascar. It extends beyond the personal to capture cultural, political, scientific, and environmental history. . . .this history is shaped by its historian’s perspective: astute, humorous, observant, optimistic.” (American Scientist)"Without a doubt one of the very best books about conservation. It ranges from the author's work with Madagascar's fascinating and unique lemurs, efforts at all levels to protect their habitat, sympathetic descriptions of village life, and the often highly amusing stories of what goes on behind the scenes during high level meetings. The information presented in diary form makes you feel you were present, sharing the excitements, disappointments and triumphs that are part of the on going struggle to save the environment. And for those of us who knew and loved Allison, it is as though she is with us still, suggesting we do our best to save this planet for our children. I was truly absorbed from start to finish." (Jane Goodall, founder, the Jane Goodall Institute and UN Messenger of Peace)“A captivating and absorbing account.” (David Attenborough)"A gripping tale of the birthing years of the environmental movement in Madagascar. Jolly is a great story-teller, and brings to life the first studies of the unique wildlife of Madagascar. Sometimes provocative, often funny and always with wisdom about human nature, this tale is history at its best, a first hand view of the intrigues of complex politics and the drive of determined researchers at the frontiers of wild science. The pathos of human poverty and the richness of wildlife are one story, and Jolly brings you Madagascar with all its complexities." (Patricia Wright, Stony Brook University)"Jolly’s amazing eyewitness account takes us from the halls of the World Bank to the huts of forest villagers - and even to the ethics of mining companies. I recommend it especially to the Malagasy friends and colleagues who struggle for sustainability for our country." (Leon Rajaobelina, Conservation International)
About the Author Alison Jolly (1937–2014) was a primatologist known for her studies of lemur biology, and she conducted extensive fieldwork in Madagascar.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. COMPELLING & DISTURBING: ALARM CALLS FOR MADAGASCAR By Mal Mitchell The publication of the posthumous work “Thank You, Madagascar: The Conservation Diaries of Alison Jolly” could hardly be more timely – with Madagascar’s lemurs hitting the news as among those currently at the leading edge of what scientists are calling Earth’s ‘Sixth Mass Extinction’. Our primate cousins the lemurs are the planet’s most endangered mammal group, with some 95% of the 100-odd known lemur species and subspecies to different degrees facing extinction – about a quarter of them being categorised by the IUCN as in critical danger. A recent study by the Overseas Development Institute considering climate change impacts, meanwhile, goes as far as indicating that on present trajectories the people of Madagascar will be amongst those facing the worst extremes on Earth within the next two decades in terms of food shortages, lack of access to drinking water, sanitation, healthcare, etc., with epidemics likely in their wake; a veritable Apocalypse. (And on such a note, when Pope Francis just this month released an unprecedented and universal call to action on climate change, US Presidential hopeful Jeb Bush wags his finger saying the Pope should keep out of politics. This son and brother of US Presidents was not so conspicuously in the news just a few years ago for having a business meeting with the then coup-installed president of Madagascar, Andry Rajoelina - since which time Mr Bush has been implicated in some oil industry iniquities in Madagascar, with allegations of land grabbing, lying and environmental despoiling in connection with a Chinese oil company - as touched on in this book on p.328. Anyway...)“Thank You, Madagascar” is not so much about Alison Jolly’s great and well-celebrated work as a primatologist especially focused on ring-tailed lemurs, but about her involvement in conservation efforts across decades to support Madagascar’s lemurs, wildlife and environments in general. I found the book compelling from beginning to end – but should note with that how I was fairly bound to find it so. A photo and caption on a New Scientist review of one of her books got me onto a lemur- and Madagascar-related trail of research, writing and other work which has deepened, broadened and intensified across one and a half decades. “Thank You, Madagascar” is a richly and variously informative book, its pages bursting with love and honesty, but it’s also very striking in terms of what it says about privilege. I don’t share all the views expressed, haven’t necessarily come to the same balance of reckonings or feelings as the author, but I’d strongly recommend it as something extremely worthwhile reading, chewing on, discussing and pursuing enquires around if you’re interested in the nature of and prospects for life in Madagascar – be it that of communities of humans or other species on the island, or communities of corporate, governmental and non-governmental bods with Madagascar on their agenda.For me, this book was fascinating, insightful, moving, disturbing, frustrating and more. I read it across about a month, most of that spent in Madagascar, and found it a great ‘companion’ for this. Very highly recommend for such accompaniment, in any case I think this book warrants major consideration, study and debate. I’ve not enjoyed either the unbridled praise or the spouting put-downs of this material by those invested in inclinations to either idol-worship or belittle. It would be great to see more in the way of constructive analysis and criticism; it’s good if comments can be well-informed but surely essential that they’re at least healthily motivated (?!)I met and spoke with Alison Jolly on a handful of occasions. In my view, on top of all her knowledge, expertise and experience, she was a very friendly, curious, responsive and brave person working in a field where so many – folk who think of themselves in a big way as caring about conservation and sustainable development in Madagascar – appear too busy with matters of consequence to trouble much with oddities coming their way from those professionally or otherwise ‘below’…. Alison Jolly’s hard-earned yet also definitely privileged access to high-level conversations, meetings, strategising, operations, monitoring, etc., affords this book dimensions of narrative interest which could be reached by few others on its subject areas. She surely had great natural gifts for writing, for observing and for communicating in general. Along with the notable insights to be found in her work, though, there’s considerable elitism to be observed as part of the context – a dynamic she comes across as largely well-aware of.It’s sad and a great deficit of a thing that Dr. Jolly isn’t around to discuss further what she’s written about in this book – and to respond to such criticisms as it may receive, whether it’s a question of science, politics, economics, cultural psychology, particular personalities or anything else. To mention something to me conspicuous by its absence is any discussion of the 2007 and 2010 symposiums in the UK on conservation and development issues in Madagascar (both of which Dr. Jolly participated in) which brought together researchers, activists, NGO workers and others, and – following on from its discussions and debates – spawned the greatly valued and utilised online forum of the Madagascar Environmental Justice Network, thanks to Barry Ferguson. Alison Jolly’s book is a marvellous resource for getting a handle on the connections between and nature of various big personalities, offices, programmes and strategies in the narrative of conservation efforts in Madagascar (e.g., Russell Mittermeier and Madagascar’s Environmental Action Plans); while there is much writ large about big NGOs such as Conservation International, there is less about smaller organisations like the Andrew Lees Trust, Feedback Madagascar, Money for Madagascar, Azafady; or Alliance Voahary Gasy, a coalition of many Malagasy environmental and human rights organisations concerned with the impact of oil and other mineral extraction industries. This reflects Alison Jolly’s direct experience. At worst, there’s a feeling of being in a club of people who’d like to build statues to each other; there are surely too many statue-like things to be seen (in this and most other fields of human activity) reflecting biases, blinkered visions, cliquey mentalities, sometimes blatant mutual reinforcement strategies, etc. Dr Jolly’s treatments of Malagasy presidents strike me as very fair, and she does a sterling job of spelling out some of their corruptions, as with presidential campaigns being financed through sales of illegally plundered rosewood. I think she’s easier, though, on corporate bodies. Total Oil doesn’t get singled out as clearly as circumstantial evidence seems to point to their effective financial backing of the 2009 coup with money for the army via French diplomats. Dreamworks, who made the uber-fortune-spinning “Madagascar” animated movie series: I don’t know that their CEO actually came good on the promise to donate $500,000 to promoting tourism to Madagascar. If he did, it seems to have been buried. It’s an outrage that with all the big money made on the cinema attractions of lemurs and Madagascar, a big chunk of the profit isn’t being channelled in support of conservation and sustainable development on the island.… And then there’s Rio Tinto’s ilmenite mining project by local subsidiary QMM – which Dr. Jolly was an adviser to on its Independent Advisory Panel (IAP) over several years. Much has been and will yet be said on this subject. It’s a huge, complex and murky area, and I think she has erred on the side of being accommodating and generous to Rio Tinto, its rationale, practices and results, e.g., in her response to how some of the recommendations of the IAP were repeatedly ignored. Some might consider her response to be one of patience, persistence and diplomacy. Some might consider it a failure to duly blow a whistle. With the comments I’ve read to date on this book’s treatment of issues with this mining project, I’m left mainly keen to underline here how so much revolves around personalities – people’s styles, beliefs, passions, etc., whether we’re talking about leaders among mining companies, governments, NGOs, or scholars; this means massive vulnerability and changeability, so it makes sense to contain or counter that through the likes of strong legislative structure and sound independent monitoring – but these things will remain non-existent/weak, underfunded, flawed and/or little heeded, without significant shifts at an international level in the actual valuing of life in Madagascar. The survival and welfare of Madagascar’s human population as well as its populations of other species certainly doesn’t seem to be of great consequence to people internationally, and I do think Alison Jolly’s work has special value in generating focus and interest, and stoking the fires of the essential thing: love.I don’t know how much it was Alison Jolly’s words or how much all the worlds of background factors that resonated for me in reading them, but her closing point brought it all to the sharpest, most critically felt focus:“Madagascar is important above all as a test case for any ideal of sustainable peace between humanity and nature. If humanity, Malagasy and outsiders together cannot save Madagascar, what hope is there to save the planet?”For now the general rape of Madagascar – its people, its wildlife, its environments – continues and accelerates, to the benefit of those mostly in other countries but also an elite handful on the island itself, ensuring most people there remain in extreme poverty and its non-human populations dwindle towards extinction.(Would give this book 4.5 out of 5, incidentally, but you can’t have halves on Amazon, so here’s a high five. The cup of that last one is half full. OK, so yes – it’s also half empty. But here’s to doing something on the more hopeful side.)
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Madagascar By Katinka A very interesting and well written life story centered around Madagascar.
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