The Ambositra-Vondrozo Forest Corridor

Role, Pressures, and Protection

The Ambositra-Vondrozo Forest Corridor is one of the remnants of the eastern forest of Madagascar. Besides the rich biodiversity that distinguishes it from other ecological regions, COFAV is the source of more than 40 rivers that flow into the Mozambique Channel and the Indian Ocean. It plays a fundamental role in regulating the water cycle, including the irrigation of hundreds of thousands of hectares of rice fields. The forest corridor determines the hydrological regimes and the local and regional climate.

Unfortunately, this wealth does not prevent its degradation due to various reasons, notably uncontrolled migration into the heart of the protected forest, mining (especially gold mining) in several areas, and illegal exploitation of precious woods. The overexploitation of the surrounding area is a result of the isolation and poverty of the local population.

In 1999, a structure named the Multi-Local Planning Committee for Natural Resources (CMP) was established. It played an advocacy role in obtaining protected status for the Corridor. With conservation actors in the Fianarantsoa province and regional and local authorities, the process of establishing the new COFAV protected area was initiated. As a result, the corridor, measuring 214,186 hectares, received temporary protected status in 2006 and the final decree for its creation as a Protected Area, Category V-IUCN, in 2015, managed by Conservation International.

“I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, And the dry land springs of water.” (Isaiah 41:8)

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