Association Fanamby
Partner Snapshot
Partner
Association Fanamby
Location
Category
- Wildlife Conservation
- Ecotourism
- Reforestation
Urgent Appeals
None currently
Date Founded
1997
Website
Partner Qualifications
About Association Fanamby
Their Challenges
Fanamby manages large and challenging protected areas facing persistent threats from forest fires, agricultural expansion, illegal clearing, charcoal production, and other unsustainable activities. In Menabe Antimena, the dry forest is particularly vulnerable to rapidly spreading fires, which can cause extensive forest-cover loss when not contained. Anjozorobe Angavo faces growing demand for charcoal and timber from nearby Antananarivo. Loky Manambato presents a major management challenge because of its vast 250,000-hectare area, where charcoal production, fires, and other unsustainable practices put pressure on natural resources. In Andrafiamena Andavakoera, pasture fires can spread rapidly with strong trade winds, creating a high risk of forest loss.
The size and remoteness of these protected areas make regular patrolling, monitoring, and rapid response difficult. Despite these challenges, Fanamby’s strengthened patrols, improved monitoring, and collaboration with local authorities have helped reduce pressure and deliver encouraging conservation results.Madagascar faces immense challenges in protecting and restoring its wildlife and natural habitats. Forest degradation from fires, grazing, slash-and burn agriculture, logging, and the production of fuelwood and charcoal are the main challenges they face today.
Their Approach
Fanamby combines three complementary approaches across Madagascar’s protected landscapes and seascapes:
- Community-led conservation: Community members play a central role in patrolling forests, reporting threats, maintaining firebreaks, monitoring biodiversity, and restoring degraded habitats. Fanamby’s SMART patrol system helps record and analyze field data so that conservation actions can be better targeted and followed over time.
- Shared governance of protected areas: Fanamby works with communities, local authorities, and other stakeholders to strengthen the institutions responsible for managing protected areas. This includes joint planning, coordination, ecological monitoring, and locally agreed rules for protecting natural resources.
- Sustainable economic opportunities: Fanamby supports producer associations and sustainable value chains in activities such as rice farming, apiculture, fisheries, vanilla, agroforestry, poultry, and handicrafts. These initiatives aim to improve household resilience while creating economic incentives to protect natural resources.
These efforts are producing encouraging results. Forest cover loss has declined substantially over the past ten years. In Anjozorobe Angavo, deforestation alerts fell by 61% between 2023 and 2025. In Menabe Antimena, 40% of interventions in 2025 were triggered by alerts from local communities.
Why They Need Your Help
This progress depends on maintaining a strong presence in Protected Areas. Your support will help Fanamby sustain community patrols, ecological monitoring, fire prevention, restoration, and coordination with local authorities. Continued funding is essential to maintain the reduction in forest loss and strengthen local action to protect Madagascar’s forests and biodiversity over the long term.