DAF: helping Malagasy people protect rainforest, the planet, and their lives and livelihoods

An accident of birth means Malagasy communities, including some living in severe poverty, find themselves charged not only with somehow keeping themselves and their families alive, but also with protecting some of the planet’s fertile and dynamic rainforest. These two imperatives could clash with and contradict one another, but under our DAF programme, they are instead complementary. Because of…

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Wealthy nations must act as window for action ‘closing fast’ on Malagasy rainforest, biodiversity

A report by experts on the Malagasy rainforest warns that the entire ecosystem and everything within it is at serious risk because of ‘alarming’ deforestation. The Madagascar Protected Area Consortium’s Madagascar Protected Area Outlook 2024, the first of its kind, reports that just 10 per cent of Madagascar’s original primary forest cover remains, that more than one football pitch…

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