Contents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

FOREWORD Hilary Bradt

INTRODUCTION Margaretta Jolly
My adventurous and astonishing mother

CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS

DRAMATIS PERSONAE

MAP OF MADAGASCAR

1  ‘Our country is committing suicide’

PART I    Villages

2  Dancing in the rainforest

3  Burning baobabs; death of children

4  David Attenborough, Madame Berthe’s mouse lemur and school among the baobabs

5  Eleanor and the aye-ayes

PART II    Politics

6  Where indri sing

7  Napoleon versus the zoos

8  The Bank corrals the donors

9  Dishing out the dough

10  Our cash killed Bedo

11  The Bank goes to the forest

PART III    Environment and development

12  Golden bamboo lemurs of Ranomafana

13  Patricia walked the boundaries

14  The village of the fig tree

15  Development meltdown

16  Real life and DreamWorks

17  President Ratsiraka

18  Madame Berthe was dancing

PART IV    Weather

19  Famine in the south

20  Lemurs coping

21  Scientists, people, lemurs: Berenty, Bezà Mahafaly and Tsimanampetsotsa

22  Climate change

PART V Money

23  Durban Vision; rosewood massacre

24  The new mines

25  Where are we now?

REFERENCES

PHOTOGRAPHS

PHOTOGRAPHIC CREDITS

INDEX