Help Farmers Rear Silk Moths to Restore Forests

Mamy's latest news Denis (CPALI entrepreneur farmer and now team trainer) told me that he got the list of 19 new farmers interested to join the team. Those farmers are waiting for the pot plastics. We are continuing to look for serious farmers ready to work immediately and replace the unserious farmers. So now we have 26 serious farmers in Ambodivoangy; 5 in Ambalamahogo, 13 in Marovovonana, + Denis and Marie jeanne= so now we have 46 serious farmers in the coba (community managed forest). Jaonary jean (CPALI entrepreneur farmer) said that he met 6 farmers in Andaparaty very interested to join the team and they will visit Jaonary jean's site. About the rearing: both of Denis and Mario (CPALI project employees) have new larvae and also many eggs, so they are focusing there work on raisins larvae until I come back to Maroantsetra. I plan to come back to Maroantsetra on next week. Update from Cay Craig, CPALI CEO Being in the US I have been working on developing our market as well as our non-spun textile. Thanks to the skill of Sylvia Weber, we now have a beautiful, unique textile that is sewn using our suraka cocoons and the stitching is invisible. The textile, (it is the background of the CPALI webpage, www.cpali.org) is generating a lot of market interest. Next week I will be presenting it to George M. Beylerian at the Material Connexion in New York (http://www.materialconnexion.com/) a center that maintains 5 libraries of unique and new materials world wide that are accessed by various industries. This is a great opportunity and I hope our textile is selected for display. As a head up, the librarian has already told us he thinks it is "cutting edge". March 16 is a fund raising day at Global Giving - the will provide a 30% match for all donations but they donation must be made on Tuesday.

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