In 2022, Ibity (Amoron’i Mania Region, south of Madagascar) was included among the beneficiaries of annual grants from FAPBM and hosted a monitoring, evaluation and audit mission. The focus of the mission was on the functioning of the organizational structure, the progress done in the first quarter and the physical security of ecosystem services activities. Field trips made it possible to see visually the restoration of gallery forests around water sources, fire management activities, and the awareness of local communities of the importance of these water sources in their agricultural activities. In addition, the missionaries took the opportunity to note the impacts of the funding from the Special Intervention Fund (FIS) granted in November 2021 following the emergence of small micas mines.
The Ibity Massif is made up of open sclerophyllous forest, rock vegetation and xerophytic lawns. The vegetation is predominantly herbaceous, including grasslands and pastures in Loudetia simplex. In the lower slopes, a secondary meadow with Aristida similis and Hyparrheia rufa, on the heights and ridges, a mountain meadow with Loudetia madagascariensis. Very small areas are occupied by the open sclerophyllous forest: degraded groves dominated by Uapaca bojeri. There are forest corridors in the thalwegs with Tina, Llex mitis, … The site houses sacred sites (tombs of ancient kings and those of Vazimba, the first people to settle on the Island.
