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The Foundation is delighted to welcome its new Executive Director in the person of Mr. Alain Liva RAHARIJAONA. With a meaningful experience in both the private and public sectors, he has chosen to put his skills at the service of the sustainability of the financing of protected areas and biodiversity in Madagascar. With an economic background, he worked for 12 years as Economic Counsellor at the Embassy of Madagascar in Brussels before joining the FAPBM. …

On 13 December 2019, the signature ceremony for the 2020 financing agreements between the FAPBM and 11 protected area managers (Madagascar National Parks, WCS Madagascar, SAGE Fampandrosoana Maharitra Missouri Botanical Garden Madagascar – Analalava, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Conservation , Fanamby, The Peregrine Fund, Asity Madagascar, GERP Madagascar, Biodiversity Conservation Madagascar) was held at the Hotel Colbert Antaninarenina. The financial subsidies allocated by the FAPBM for the year 2020 are 7,780,411,731 MGA for 35 protected areas spread throughout Madagascar All categories of protected areas of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (I, II, III, III, IV, V and VI) are represented in the panel financially supported by the Foundation. The FAPBM annually allocates funding for the conservation of protected areas to enable biodiversity to fully play its role as a development lever for Madagascar. The stakes of preserving them go beyond the environmental framework. Madagascar’s 7 million hectares of …

The Board of Trustees of the FAPBM has had three new members since 21 May 2019: Mr. Uwe Klug, Senior Sectoral Expert on Biodiversity at KfW, German Development Bank Mr. Ratafika DIMBINDRAIBE, Director of Cabinet of the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development Mrs Hanta Zo RAKOTOVAO, Head of the Legal and Regulatory Department of Orange Madagascar and Orange Money Madagascar May 21 was also the occasion for the FAPBM to congratulate the new President of its Board of Directors, Mrs Sahondra RAJOELINA, Country Director of Conservation International Madagascar. Mrs Sahondra RAJOELINA has been a director of the Foundation since 2013, taking over from her predecessor, Mr Barijaona RAMAHOLIMIHASO. Since that date, Mrs. Nanie RATSIFANDRIHAMANANANA, Country Director of WWF Madagascar, has been Vice-Chairman of the Foundation’s Board of Directors. The current composition of the FAPBM Board of Directors is available on this page …

Every year, May 22nd is celebrated as International Day for Biological Diversity. For 2017, the theme chosen is “biodiversity and sustainable tourism”. As an institution promoting and acting for the protection of the unique biodiversity of the Big Island, the Foundation for Protected Areas and Biodiversity of Madagascar (FAPBM) naturally joins in this celebration. The foundation thus works hand in hand with the Ministry of Environment, Ecology and Forests for the organization of the different events promoting the biodiversity of Madagascar. Biodiversity: an endangered bedrock of life However, due to the multiple pressures put on it, this biodiversity is threatened with extinction. This fact is bringing out the urgency to act for its protection. FAPBM has decided to celebrate the International Day for Biological Diversity by raising awareness: “Some of us mistakenly think that we should focus on humans instead of protecting plants and animals. But what these people do …