Conservation International Madagascar

Conservation International Madagascar
AbbreviationCI Madagascar
Formation1990
TypeCountry programme
HeadquartersAntananarivo, Madagascar
Region served
Madagascar
FieldsBiodiversity conservation; protected areas; sustainable landscapes; climate resilience
Parent organization
Conservation International
Websitewww.conservation.org/places/madagascar

Conservation International Madagascar (CI Madagascar) is the Madagascar country programme of Conservation International. Conservation International began working in Madagascar in 1990.

CI Madagascar's work has included protected-area and forest-corridor management in eastern Madagascar, including the Ambositra-Vondrozo Forest Corridor (COFAV) and the Ankeniheny-Zahamena Corridor (CAZ). It has also supported locally managed fisheries in the Corridor Marin des 7 Baies in north-eastern Madagascar and grasslands-restoration work in the south-west.

Its later work has also included climate-finance and resilience programmes in eastern Madagascar, notably the Green Climate Fund (GCF)-supported Sustainable Landscapes in Eastern Madagascar (SLEM) initiative, which was approved in 2016 to support climate resilience for smallholders and reduce greenhouse-gas emissions through measures including climate-smart agriculture and sustainable forest management.