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ALAOTRA - ENDANGERED TREASURES OF MADAGASCAR

DORCON FILM UG (HAFTUNGSBESCHRÄNKT) - as PROD

Environmental - Completed 2017

European and Malagasy conservationists try to save the last of the rare Alaotra Gentle Lemur – called "Bandro" - in Madagascar by playing a board game with the locals.

- Year of production
- 2017
- Genres
- Environmental, Social issues, Documentary
- Countries
- GERMANY
- Languages
- ENGLISH, FRENCH
- Budget
- 0 - 0.3 M$
- Duration
- 72 mn
- Synopsis
- Alaotra - Endangered Treasures of Madagascar (2017)
  Together, a group of European and Malagasy conservationists are trying to save the last of the rare Alaotra Gentle Lemur – called "Bandro" - in Madagascar.
  The Bandro is unique amongst the lemurs, because it can only survive on the floating islands on Lake Alaotra; Madagascar's largest freshwater lake.
  But the habitat of the Bandro is threatened by changes in traditional land-use forms and local customs as well as by Climate Change.
  To turn the wheel of extinction around the team reverts extraordinary measures: A board-game played with the local famers and fishers, but also with regional politicians is expected to bring all parties to one table.
  The film follows a Swiss conservationist and researcher and his international team on a search for the last remaining Bandros around Lake Alaotra.
  Background: This is a film about the PEOPLE living in the Alaotra region in Madagascar, and about the CHANGES in their social and natural environments.
  This is also a film about the BANDRO, the Alaotra gentle lemur (Hapalemur alaotrensis), that can survive only in the marshes surrounding the lake, and that is facing extinction due to these changes.
  This is also a film about RESEARCH; on how to tackle complexity and grasp change. The AlaReLa (Alaotra Resilience Landscape) project aims to understand the various livelihood strategies of people like farmers or fishers, who use the lake, the marshes, and the land surrounding the lake to produce food and charcoal and other sources of energy. The scientist's goal in the AlaReLa project is to engage with and inform decision makers responsible for the governance of such complex socio-ecological systems as the Alaotra.
  Follow us to some of Madagascar's hidden places - far away from the touristic centers - to find out what can happen when derivates of our modern times seep slowly into traditional ways of living. What can be done to strike a balance between yesterday and tomorrow; between conservation and development?