Environmental education

Raising awareness among communities

Protect what you love, love what you know

Nosy Be's first environmental education programme!

Founded in 2018 by local association MADA Megafauna and MWSP, Ocean Guardians is a marine environment education program.
This project aims to inform, raise awareness and generate interest around local marine biodiversity. We aim to provide tools for understanding environmental issues, stimulate and support initiatives proposing ecological alternatives, and promote access to the sea, especially among the younger generations of Nosy Be.

The team is made up of Elina Sourisseau, founder of MADA Megafauna, Diane, educational coordinator and Raïssa, multi-skilled assistant in charge of welcoming international teams.
Since its inception, the program has raised awareness among over 5,000 people, mobilized 7 schools, trained 4 educational animators and enabled 350 children to take part in sea outings.
The needs are great on Nosy Be, and the team is constantly perfecting its approach and innovating new projects to protect the marine environment.

The Guardians of the Oceans in action

Empowering the next generation

School program
To date, several schools have included our activities in their curriculum. On a daily basis, the activity leader takes a step-by-step approach to the notion of life, the different species encountered on Nosy Be, their threats and conservation solutions. To date, our activities have been aimed at nursery and secondary school children.
Beach activities
Every Saturday morning, the team brings together children from the village of Madirokely in the shade of the Tamarin. Through playful activities, the activity leader raises awareness and interest in protecting the marine environment. These are also moments of exchange and close relationships with the children and their parents, who sometimes share the activities together.
Street activities
During the school vacations, Diane travels around the villages of Madirokely, Ambatoloaka and Daresalama with her educational kit. In this way, she mobilizes groups of volunteer children who take part in the proposed activities on a daily basis throughout their vacations.
Young reporters
This brand-new project mobilizes and supports groups of young people wishing to produce a short report on Nosy Be's environmental problems or solutions. The young people are actors and can thus themselves build their awareness-raising tools, which will be widely distributed to the local population.