Revolt in the deep south
The "Trano mena", the Red House, headquarter of the Centre for locust control, in Betioky, in the extreme south of Madagascar. It’s where...
Arrival in the Mossi country
1975, at the door of my new office within the Saria’s agricultural station. I have just landed in the Mossi country, in the heart of...
When the locusts’ DNA spoke
A swarm of locusts flying over the Cape Verde Islands. This photo was taken by my colleague Maurice Balmat in 1988, during an invasion....
El Niño and the locusts
I arrived in Indonesia for the first time in June 1998. Major riots in the capital had just ended and the flight making the connection...
Lost in the Iguidi erg
In 1989, along with several colleagues from CIRAD, we had to travel in the Tamesna, in the northern saharian Niger, to study habitats and...
Set ashore on a desert island
With a colleague from CIRAD, in 1982, we are (left photo) in front of our refugee tent (lent to us by the local Red Cross), which will be...
A famous locust organization of the past
In 2005 in Zinder (Niger), I accompanied a PhD student working on the Senegalese grasshopper. I had to visit its field stations located...
An erroneous assumption
In 1992, in Campinas, Brazil, the magazine Globo Ciência comes to report on these scientists trying to understand the locust outbreaks...
Across the Sahara
These pictures were taken in November 1989, during a crossing of the Sahara, from Niamey to Rabat. I had just spent two months in Niger...
My first boss
In February 1991, Jean Roy in front of the famous In N'Gourène tree in Tamesna, Niger (18° 1'971 N - 5° 18'489 E). At that time, I'm in...
