As the new year begins, we wanted to share with you the latest information about our major programmes, to show you how your support and help is making an impact and improving Malagasy lives and the Malagasy biosphere. Renewable World’s three main programmes are Renewable Forests and Livelihoods, Children for the Future and Education for Life (we are also…
Heavy rains in and around Madagascar’s capital city Antananarivo have caused extensive damage to a children’s centre with which we work. On Tuesday (11 November 2025) evening at about 7.15pm Malagasy-time, a storm including heavy rain, strong winds and hail, struck the Akany Avoko Ambohidatrimo (AAA) centre, home to 105 children; girls aged 0-18 and boys aged 0-8 years…
World leaders have gathered in Belem, Brasil under the ongoing shadow of the climate catastrophe, for the 30th UN Climate Change Conference (COP30). The summit has begun with the world in an unprecedented level of risk from – and in the case of Madagascar experience of the impacts of – climate change, but serious questions must be asked about…
Malagasy President Andriy Rajoelina used his speech to the UN General Assembly to focus on the Malagasy economy, and its environment, noting both require and deserve help from beyond the Malagasy borders. Speaking at the UN General Assembly on Wednesday (24th September) Rajoelina said the African Growth and Opportunity Act, a deal with sub-Saharan African states which has run…
Two lemurs have been added to the list of the 25 most-endangered primates on Earth. But there are hopes that one may spark new interest in and protection for, a vital ecological habitat. Madagascar is the only country on Earth to which lemurs are native, but 95 per cent of lemur species are at risk of extinction. And at…
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has concluded an in-country review of Madagascar’s economic situation with a warning that ‘outside shocks’ ‘cloud’ the country’s economic outlook. While the international financial body, which last year stepped in to provide Madagascar with and Extended Credit Facility (ECF) and a Resilience and Sustainability Facility (RSF), both of which it believes can help the…
On Thursday 5th June 2025, the World Bank updated its – and the world’s – poverty metric. Up to that date, the international poverty baseline – the line below which anyone is defined as living in poverty – had been an income of US$2.15 (£1.59 at 8th September 2025) or less per day. From then, the income per day…
A new frog discovery in Madagascar’s South-East reminds us how resilient, but also how threatened, the Malagasy wilderness is. A large frog has been discovered in Madagascar’s Domain de la Cascade Plantation Lansargues nature reserve, in the country’s South-East. The three-inch amphibian, named Love’s Giant Stream Frog (after the herpetologist Bill Love, who has contributed greatly to the understanding…
Money for Madagascar is delighted to have been invited to participate in an innovative international tree-growth and care initiative. The Darwin Nursery Exchange Project is in its final year and its last ‘nurserymen workshop’ – designed to share best practice, experience and build networks in creating tree nurseries to enable reforestation in Madagascar – will take place from 2nd…
We at Money for Madagascar are proud to have become a member of the Population Health Environment Madagascar Network (PHE). The 88-member network unites health and environmental organisations, helping one another work with and for more than 830,000 men, women and children in remote and threatened areas. PHE helps organise peer exchange, promotion of best practice and integrated programmatic…
Mamitiana Rajaonarison has been appointed Madagascar’s new…
Friday 20th March is world frog day,…
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