Project data
- Started: 1, Jan 2006
- Planned end date: 31, Dec 2007
- Managing Office: WWF Madagascar and West Indian Ocean Programme Office
- Address:
WWF Madagascar and West Indian Ocean Programme Office
/ B.P. 738
Antananarivo 101 /
Madagascar /
+261 20 22 34885 - Status: active
- Modified: 14, Oct 2009
- Published: 14, Oct 2009
Geographical location:
Africa/Madagascar > West Indian Ocean > Madagascar
Summary
The project goal is to restore the ecological services and socio-economic values of the Fandriana-Marolambo landscape within the Madagascar Moist Forest Ecoregion.
The project will undertake analyses of the main causes of forest degradation and identify and implement appropriate restoration strategies in partnership with local authorities and communities.
Background
The moist forest in eastern Madagascar is characterised by tropical humid and sub-humid forests. The particular landscape of Fandriana-Marolambo is situated between the Central plateau and eastern escarpment, South of Antananarivo, and is about 150,000 ha in size.
The moist forests represent an important centre of endemism and contain many species of lemurs as well as over 20 species of small mammals. As this habitat becomes degraded or disappears, all of these species, found nowhere else on Earth, are at risk of disappearing forever.
The biodiversity vision for the Moist Forest Ecoregion has identified the critical need for restoration if biodiversity and ecological services are to be maintained in the future. In 2003, a process to identify priority areas for restoration was initiated and resulted in the identification of 3 priority areas. Fandriana-Marolambo is one of them and has been deemed particularly suitable for beginning a FLR initiative.
Restoring this forest landscape will ensure the continuity of the Malagasy Eastern forest corridor. The objective of the project is in line with the Malagasy Government priority to increase the forest cover and contribute to poverty reduction in environmentally sensitive areas.
Objectives
- Establish a framework and action plan for a long-term restoration programme of the Fandriana-Marolambo landscape.
- Field test restoration strategies that can be upscaled.
- Develop lessons learned and extend forest landscape restoration (FLR) initiatives to other identified priorities in the Madagascar Moist Forest Ecoregion.