Who we are

A fund for the future of Madagascar’s biodiversity

FAPBM is a Trust Fund that serves as an innovative financing mechanism for protected areas of Madagascar. FAPBM is endowed with a capital invested in international markets. Only the income from this capital is spent to finance protected areas in Madagascar. This means that the capital remains intact over time, thus securing the sustainability of the biodiversity funding. After  more than 15 years, the mechanism is proving to be key as the only able to ensure sustainable and predictable financing for protected areas.

Created in 2005, FAPBM is a private fund recognized as a public utility, governed by an independent Board of Trustees. It is managed by an executive team. FAPBM complies with the highest standards in terms of ethics, transparency, auditing of financial accounts, monitoring of funding, environmental and social safeguard policy and case management system.

Thanks to the trust of contributors such as Conservation International, WWF, the Agence Française de développement (AFD), the French Facility for Global Environment (FFEM), KfW, and the Global Environment Facility (GEF), FAPBM is still actively working in 2024 to preserve 70 protected areas covering over 6 million hectares.

FAPBM is presently the largest trust fund for biodiversity conservation in Africa with a capital of 150 million USD.

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The founders

FAPBM founders are :

Malagasy Government

represented by



Late Sylvain Rabotoarison

Conservation International

represented by



Late Léon Rajaobelina

World Wide Fund for Nature

represented by



Jean Paul Paddack

Key figures

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500

Species protected
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6

Million hectares preserved
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70

Protected areas (PA) funded
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150

Million of capital (USD)
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2.66

Biodiversity Conservation Indicator
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5.5

Million in funding granted (USD)

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