Excerpt from alliancemagazine.org
In October, Madagascar’s environment and sustainable development ministry presented the Conservation Allies’ 2025 Madagascar Protected Areas Outlook, a report to assess the health and management of the country’s protected areas, which found that locally-managed areas show significantly lower deforestation rates. At the same time, Madagascar has signed delegating contracts that grant local organisations like ours the legal right to manage some of the country’s most iconic landscapes.
For us, this moment is deeply personal. It represents seven years of persistence, finally recognised, and the trust from our government formalised. These agreements give communities we work with the long-overdue legitimacy to protect forests, coasts and wildlife that sustain them.