Valorising Malagasy protected areas as seed sources for forest restoration
Key Facts
FUNDING SCHEME Main Project
VALUE £167,232
WHERE Madagascar
Summary
The conservation of Madagascar’s remarkable biodiversity faces numerous challenges, including, importantly: the need for impoverished communities living close to protected areas to derive greater benefits from such reserves; and the lack of reliable supply chains for high quality seeds of native trees to enable such plants to contribute to the country’s ambitious reforestation targets. We will work with parent-teacher associations at local schools around the Analavelona protected area to develop lucrative seed supply chains: thereby addressing both these problems simultaneously.
Fikanbanany Ray Aman-dReny ny Mpianatra, Direction Régionale de l’Ecologie, de l’Environnement et des Forêts (DREEF) Menabe, FIMPIBAMI (association of Bara students at the University of Tulear), Mpanzaka
