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For more than a decade, Madagascar Biodiversity Partnership has focused on building relationships with local leaders and community members. Together, they created an expansive reforestation network with 23 nurseries and are working on linking forests to recreate lemur migration corridors. Additionally, through community engagement, the reforestation project provides an economic stimulus through the incorporation of valuable tree crops and reduces pressure on remaining forests by providing fuelwood.
More than 20 women’s associations are active collaborators in this project. To ensure that reforestation efforts are suitable for wildlife, seeds of more than 100 native tree species are collected from lemur feces and used to generate seedlings that are planted during village-wide events. More than 90,000 trees can be planted in a month!