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Conservation International Madagascar
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| Abbreviation | CI Madagascar |
|---|---|
| Formation | 1990 |
| Type | Country programme |
| Headquarters | Antananarivo, Madagascar |
Region served | Madagascar |
| Fields | Biodiversity conservation; protected areas; sustainable landscapes; climate resilience |
Parent organization | Conservation International |
| Website | www |
Conservation International Madagascar (CI Madagascar) is the Madagascar country programme of Conservation International, with a central office in Antananarivo and regional branches in Fianarantsoa and Toamasina.[1][2] Conservation International began working in Madagascar in 1990.[1]
CI Madagascar's work has included support for protected-area and landscape initiatives, including management of forest corridors in eastern and south-eastern Madagascar. The Fianarantsoa and Toamasina branches have managed the Ambositra-Vondrozo Forest Corridor (COFAV) and the Ankeniheny-Zahamena Corridor (CAZ), respectively.[2] CI has also supported locally managed fisheries in the Corridor Marin des 7 Baies in north-eastern Madagascar and grasslands-restoration work in the south-west as part of Herding for Health.[1]
In 2016, the Green Climate Fund (GCF) approved Sustainable Landscapes in Eastern Madagascar, with Conservation International Foundation as the accredited entity, to support climate resilience for smallholders and reduce greenhouse-gas emissions through measures including climate-smart agriculture and sustainable forest management.[3][4]
History
[edit]Conservation International began working in Madagascar in 1990 and established a programme with a central office in Antananarivo and regional branches in Fianarantsoa and Toamasina.[1][2]
During Madagascar's 2009 political crisis, Conservation International linked increased pressure on some forests to weakened enforcement, citing cases of lemur poaching for bushmeat and raising concerns about illegal logging.[5]
By the 2010s, CI Madagascar’s regional branches had developed major landscape programmes linked to forest-corridor management in eastern and south-eastern Madagascar, including work associated with COFAV and CAZ.[2]
At the 2014 World Parks Congress in Sydney, a Malagasy delegation that included Conservation International sought support for protected-area finance and management.[6]
In 2016, CI’s Madagascar work expanded to include a large-scale climate-finance programme in eastern Madagascar (Sustainable Landscapes in Eastern Madagascar), designed to support smallholder resilience and reduce greenhouse-gas emissions through interventions including climate-smart agriculture and sustainable forest management.[3][4]
Activities by location
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Antananarivo
[edit]CI Madagascar is based in Antananarivo and coordinates programme work through its central office.[1][2]
Eastern Madagascar
[edit]The GCF project Sustainable Landscapes in Eastern Madagascar supports smallholder resilience and greenhouse gas mitigation through climate-smart agriculture and more sustainable forest management in eastern Madagascar.[3] A clustered phase-in impact evaluation design has been used to assess midterm outcomes, including adoption of conservation agriculture practices and changes in livelihood and food-security indicators among early beneficiaries.[4]
Programme implementation in the CAZ and COFAV landscapes has included reforestation and restoration of degraded forest areas and distribution of forest and agroforestry seedlings across participating communes.[7] The programme has also been associated with livelihood support for rural households and carbon-finance mechanisms linked to reduced deforestation and restoration outcomes in the landscape.[8]
Ambositra-Vondrozo Forest Corridor
[edit]CI maintains a regional branch in Fianarantsoa that has managed the Ambositra-Vondrozo Forest Corridor (COFAV).[2] Madagascar's National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan referenced COFAV among conservation landscapes in national planning documentation.[9]
COFAV is a forest corridor linking Ranomafana National Park and Andringitra National Park.[10] Peer-reviewed research describing the corridor analysed habitat connectivity and corridor structure between protected areas, providing an evidence base used in wider corridor-scale planning discussions for south-eastern Madagascar.[10]
Community-based forest management in COFAV has included patrol and fire-monitoring activities by local associations working with Conservation International under the Sustainable Landscapes in Eastern Madagascar programme.[11]
Toamasina and Ankeniheny-Zahamena Corridor
[edit]CI maintains a regional branch in Toamasina that has managed work associated with the Ankeniheny-Zahamena Corridor (CAZ).[2]
In the CAZ landscape, CI has provided technical support to protected-area management, including secretariat functions for a technical committee established for the protected area.[12] In the early 2010s, Conservation International was engaged by the Malagasy government to manage CAZ, in the context of limited protected-area enforcement capacity.[13]
The CAZ corridor links Zahamena National Park and Andasibe-Mantadia National Park and covers about 425,000 hectares (4,250 km2).[12] A carbon-finance component aimed to purchase 430,000 tonnes of verified emission reductions from reduced deforestation, with carbon revenues intended to help cover protected-area management costs and expand local economic opportunities.[12] Research has evaluated conservation and development investments in the corridor using satellite-derived indicators of deforestation and fire across the landscape.[14]
Pressures in parts of CAZ have included illegal sapphire mining and associated forest impacts. Community-based forestry organisations (VOI) have been involved in patrols and reporting of infractions alongside CI and local authorities.[13]
In 2025, civil-society groups including Conservation International raised concerns about the Antananarivo–Toamasina highway project; the government said it would modify the route to avoid the CAZ corridor and other protected forests.[15]
North-eastern Madagascar
[edit]CI has supported locally managed fisheries in the Corridor Marin des 7 Baies in north-eastern Madagascar.[1]
Daraina
[edit]During Madagascar's 2009 political crisis, Conservation International cited cases documented in the Daraina region in northern Madagascar in raising concerns about lemur poaching and forest pressure.[5]
South-western Madagascar
[edit]CI has supported grasslands-restoration work in the south-west as part of Herding for Health.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g "Madagascar". Conservation International.
- ^ a b c d e f g Sustainable Landscapes in Eastern Madagascar: Environmental and Social Management Plan (Translation of the original French version) (PDF) (Report). European Investment Bank. 19 May 2016. pp. 68–69.
- ^ a b c "Sustainable Landscapes in Eastern Madagascar". Green Climate Fund.
- ^ a b c Donatti, Camila I.; Fedele, Giacomo; Marcellino, Rocky; et al. (September 2025). "Sustainable Landscapes for Eastern Madagascar – A Midterm Impact Evaluation". Environmental Challenges. 20 101231. doi:10.1016/j.envc.2025.101231.
- ^ a b "Bushmeat trade threatens Madagascar's rare lemurs". Reuters. 21 August 2009.
- ^ "Madagascar a besoin de 18 millions de dollars pour ses aires protégées" (PDF). Madagascar Tribune (in French). 7 November 2014.
- ^ "CAZ-COFAV: Une reforestation sur 239 ha réalisée". Midi Madagasikara (in French). 12 September 2022.
- ^ "Restauration de 3 913 hectares de zones forestières dégradées". Midi Madagasikara (in French). 6 December 2024.
- ^ CBD Strategy and Action Plan - Madagascar (English version) (PDF) (Report). Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).
- ^ a b Ramiadantsoa, Tiana; Ovaskainen, Otso; Rybicki, Joel; et al. (22 July 2015). "Large-scale habitat corridors for biodiversity conservation: A forest corridor in Madagascar". PLOS ONE. 10 (7) e0132126. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0132126.
- ^ "Zone COFAV: plus de 1 690 ha de forêt gérés par la VOI Parc Zafimaniry". Midi Madagasikara (in French). 3 December 2024.
- ^ a b c Madagascar - Inkeniheny-Zahamena Corridor Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) Project (Integrated Safeguards Datasheet) (PDF) (Report). World Bank. 2011. pp. 2, 5.
- ^ a b Tullis, Paul (6 March 2019). "How illegal mining is threatening Madagascar's endangered lemurs". National Geographic.
- ^ Tabor, Karyn; Jones, Kelly W.; Hewson, Jennifer; et al. (21 December 2017). "Evaluating the effectiveness of conservation and development investments in reducing deforestation and fires in Ankeniheny-Zahamena Corridor, Madagascar". PLOS ONE. 12 (12) e0190119. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0190119.
- ^ Fabry, Guilhem (31 March 2025). "A Madagascar, le chantier de la première autoroute du pays au cœur de vives préoccupations sociales et environnementales". Le Monde (in French).