The office based in Madagascar looks after projects in-country, as well as conservation activities and policies affecting the islands of the western Indian Ocean, such as the Seychelles, Reunion and Mauritius.
Founded: 1979
Founded: 1979
WWF Madagascar & Western Indian Ocean office
Office
WWF Madagascar and West Indian Ocean Programme Office,
Antananarivo
B.P. 738 Antananarivo 101 Madagascar +261 20 22 34885 +261 20 22 34888
WWF in Madagascar & Indian Ocean
- Madagascar: AGAINST deforestation
The Holistic conservation programme for forests in Madagascar, a three-year project funded by the French Association GoodPlanet - with Air France as sole sponsor - and implemented in the field by WWF, aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by reducing deforestation and forest degradation in Madagascar. This will subsequently contribute to improve the livelihoods of local communities and preserve Madagascar’s biodiversity.
WWF Conservation Projects in Madagascar
Fandriana-Marolambo Forest Landscape Restoration
The project goal is to restore the ecological services and socio-economic values of the Fandriana-Marolambo landscape within the Madagascar Moist Fore...
Communal Natural Resource Management in the Forest Corridor between Andringitra and Ranomafana National Parks
The Andringitra-Ranomafana forest corridor project is based on the principle of promoting natural resource management to achieve conservation benefits...
Conserving water in the mountains of Madagascar
Between the national parks of Ranomafana and Andringitra in southeastern Madagascar lies a 120km forest corridor that separates the coastal lowlands f...
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The cry of the dolphin
Russian WWF Director Viktor Nikiforov visited Madagascar in October 2009. In Tuléar, in the south of the island, he visited a WWF project protecting spiny and dry forest as well as one of the biggest coral reef systems in the world. During his visit to the village of Maromena, Viktor heard an incredibly inspiring story. It’s the story of a big dolphin rescue operation. And it’s the story about people in Maromena and Befasy who are about to turn around their fate.
Climate change in Madagascar
WWF was UNICEF's special guest during a workshop debate on climate change, one of the public events that marked the "La semaine des Nations Unies", from October 19 to 24.
Shipwreck an ecological disaster for southern Madagascar
Faux Cap, Madagascar – Toxic waste from a ship which went down off the coast in southern Madagascar in August has had severe impacts on the health of local people and on the rich coastal and marine environment, according to a study supported by WWF.
Forests fundamental to effective climate deal
The world’s ability to control climate change could be crippled if global leaders do not support clear and effective targets to arrest deforestation at climate talks in Copenhagen in December, WWF said at the conclusion of a key global foresty summit.
Loophole looms for illegal loggers of rare Madagascar woods
An exceptional authorisation from the Malagasy transitional government for the export of raw and semi-processed precious woods risks opening a loophole for the legal export of illegally cut timber and encouraging further assaults on Madagascar's endangered forests and wildlife, conservation groups active on the island have said.
Loophole looms for illegal loggers ravaging Madagascar
An exceptional authorisation from the Malagasy transitional government for the export of raw and semi-processed precious woods risks opening a loophole for the legal export of illegally cut timber and encouraging further assaults on Madagascar's endangered forests and wildlife, conservation groups active on the island have said.
Madagascar accused of profiting from illegal timber
Madagascar's cash-strapped government has opened the door for timber barons to plunder the Indian Ocean island's precious natural resources.
International community calls for action against illegal logging in Madagascar
The international community and major conservation groups in Madagscar have issued a joint statement calling for action against dramatic increase in illegal logging on the island which is putting at risk one of the world's richest biodiversity hotspots.
Maminiaina Rasamoelina: "There is no routine in my job"
An interview with the WWF/GoodPlanet project leader
New Madagascar project to measure carbon savings from forest conservation
Up to 500,000 hectares of moist and spiny forests in Madagascar are to be protected or restored in a pioneering project which will include testing ways to measure climate impacts.