(English) Community power: proving sustainable development works in Madagascar

24th February 2025

| agriculture, Aid, CEPF, climate, climate catastrophe, climate change, community, conservation, development, environment, farming, finance, food, forest, livelihoods, loans, Madagascar, Malagasy, Partnerships, poverty, rainforest, RFL, wildlife

Miala tsiny fa tsy mbola misy amin’ny teny malagasy ity lahatsoratra ity. Money for Madagascar and Malagasy people have shown sustainable development can build a better future for Madagascar, in a project which has empowered communities to protect their environment while improving their incomes and living standards. Our Empowering Communities for Conservation and Livelihoods in Madagascar initiative (ECCLiM), supported…

(English) The US, aid, and Money for Madagascar

21st February 2025

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| Aid, Children, climate, climate catastrophe, climate change, conservation, development, education, environment, equality, forest, gender, health, livelihoods, Madagascar, Malagasy, Netherlands, Partnerships, poverty, rainforest, trade, US, USAID, water, wildlife

Miala tsiny fa tsy mbola misy amin’ny teny malagasy ity lahatsoratra ity. We are aware that our supporters and partners have understandable concerns about our position and situation in the light of developments in the US and now the Netherlands. At present, we are not directly affected by the measures taken by the US government. We do not receive…

(English) Environment and Development Must Complement, Not Harm, One Another

10th February 2025

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| Antananarivo, climate, climate catastrophe, climate change, community, development, environment, Environmental News, forest, IMF, livelihoods, Madagascar, Malagasy, rainforest, RFL, Roads, Route du Soleil, Taomasina, wildlife

Miala tsiny fa tsy mbola misy amin’ny teny malagasy ity lahatsoratra ity. Money for Madagascar welcomes and joins new calls for reassurances that the Malagasy rainforests will not be damaged by two proposed new roads in Madagascar. Members of the European parliament have called on the IMF to pause the payment of fund for two road-building projects in Madagascar,…

(English) Climate Catastrophe: those most able, must act now

4th February 2025

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| agriculture, climate catastrophe, conservation, development, environment, Environmental News, forest, Madagascar, Malagasy, rainforest, wildlife

Miala tsiny fa tsy mbola misy amin’ny teny malagasy ity lahatsoratra ity. Madagascar is bracing for the next in a series of intense cyclones, as the UK Met Office warns that such weather events will increase in intensity and frequency due to climate change. Cyclone Faida is scheduled to make landfall in Madagascar today (Tuesday 4 February 2025). Its…

(English) Community loans: protecting forests, improving lives

24th January 2025

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| agriculture, CEPF, conservation, finance, forest, Funding initiative, Madagascar, Malagasy, rainforest, RFL, wildlife

Miala tsiny fa tsy mbola misy amin’ny teny malagasy ity lahatsoratra ity. An innovative community loan scheme run by Money for Madagascar has empowered Malagasy people to generate income in new ways, developing and enacting environmentally-friendly farming and other activities. The Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) created a pool of cash for Malagasy people, including women, vulnerable minority groups…

(English) Lives, livelihoods and lifestyles: the world’s wealthiest have a responsibility to Malagasy people

21st January 2025

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| conservation, development, Environmental News, farming, Madagascar, Malagasy, rainforest, trade, wildlife, World Bank

Miala tsiny fa tsy mbola misy amin’ny teny malagasy ity lahatsoratra ity. The World Bank reminds us that Malagasy people are among the world’s poorest, and that development need not threaten the environment on which we all rely. Our work follows this vital and accurate mantra. We join the Bank in calling on the world’s richest nations help Malagasy…

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

3rd January 2025

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| agriculture, conservation, DAF, Environmental News, farming, Madagascar, Malagasy, rainforest, RFL, wildlife

Miala tsiny fa tsy mbola misy amin’ny teny malagasy ity lahatsoratra ity. 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…

(English) Malagasy medicines saving lives at the expense of planet, Malagasy people – report

24th December 2024

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| conservation, development, Environmental News, Madagascar, Malagasy, medicine, rainforest, trade

Miala tsiny fa tsy mbola misy amin’ny teny malagasy ity lahatsoratra ity. Illicit and unfair trade in Madagascar’s unique plants is threatening entire species, as well as exploiting Malagasy working men and women. The international wild species trade expert organisation TRAFFIC reports that trade in Malagasy plants – prized for their unique medicinal properties including for skincare and organ…

(English) Cyclone Chido the latest warning of climate catastrophe

20th December 2024

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| conservation, Environmental News, Madagascar, Malagasy, rainforest

Miala tsiny fa tsy mbola misy amin’ny teny malagasy ity lahatsoratra ity. From 8th to 16th December, Cyclone Chido developed in the Western Indian Ocean and struck several islands in its path. One of those was Madagascar, which was, fortunately, spared the worst of the cyclone’s devastation. But Mauritian island Agalega, and Mayotte, which lie either side of Madagascar’s…

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

13th December 2024

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| conservation, development, Environmental News, Madagascar, Malagasy, rainforest, wildlife

Miala tsiny fa tsy mbola misy amin’ny teny malagasy ity lahatsoratra ity. 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…

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