Month: April 2022

Imagining a world without nature was the reflection to which Internet users were led in a digital campaign. How would the world be without water, forests, animals and all the components of wildlife? Through an alteration of their logos, by removing the symbols of nature on their identity, several entities have joined the online mobilization initiated by WWF to illustrate the meaningless of a world without nature and the need for us to preserve it.   For World Forest Day, FAPBM launched a digital campaign on March to highlight the reforestation and restoration efforts taking place at the level of protected areas. In 2020, 45% of FAPBM funding for protected areas (3.5 million ha) was dedicated to the conservation and restoration of ecosystems, whose results within protected areas are more effective. …

On February 23, 2022, the Executive Secretariat of the Consortium of African Funds for Environment (CAFE) held a virtual meeting of the ESMS working group, in which CAFE members participated. FAPBM presented the progress of the development of its ESMS, started in early 2021, on this occasion.   The ESMS declares the environmental and social safeguard commitments and principles of FAPBM to ensure that the negative environmental and social impacts of projects funded by FAPBM are avoided or, if unavoidable, minimized and properly mitigated. It also includes an operational guide (at the level of the Foundation and PA managers, the system for managing complaints, grievances and complaints, the risks of funding impacts, environmental and social standards, and monitoring and evaluation of the system).   The 2nd presentation of the meeting was made by Biofund from Mozambique, entitled « avoiding trouble : a scaled approach to an ESMS (Environmental and Social Risk Management …

Emnati then Batsiraï, in less than 2 weeks (10 and 22 February), two cyclones hit the south-east of Madagascar where two FAPBM-granted protected areas are located: Agnalazaha, managed by MBG and Manombo, managed by MNP. Serge Ratsirahonana, Monitoring and Evaluation Officer, and Evah Ralalarisoa, Internal Control Officer of FAPBM, paid a visit on site in late February and early March for an audit and monitoring and evaluation mission. It was clear that both protected areas were heavily impacted by cyclones.   With regard to biodiversity, those tropical cyclones have severely depleted forests of their foliage. This scarcity of leaves in their usual territories would have forced arboreal and folivorous fauna species, particularly lemurs, to change territory and/or travel greater distances to feed. In addition, in the restoration areas, more than 85% of the seedlings planted last year (Q3 2021) were uprooted. Seedlings from previous years were more or less resistant …