Boeny, Madagascar

Why We Are Partnering to Restore Forests in the Boeny Region

Madagascar’s Boeny region is home to mangrove and dry deciduous forests that are critical for endemic biodiversity and local well-being. Over the past two decades, 41,700 hectares (ha) of tree cover have been lost due to unsustainable practices and natural disasters. Since 2012, Eden has been working hand-in-hand with local communities and government partners to restore degraded forests, creating co-benefits for local households and endemic biodiversity.

Now, we are expanding those efforts, launching a 335,000-ha landscape restoration initiative focused on Ankarafantsika National Park and mangrove forests of the Betsiboka River delta. This more holistic restoration initiative aims to enhance habitat connectivity, safeguard biodiversity, and create new economic opportunities with and for local communities. Together, Eden and its partners are supporting a new future for the forests of Boeny, ensuring the landscape can thrive for generations to come.

How We’re Working Here

Through collaboration with communities, government, and other stakeholders, this reforestation and landscape restoration project will play a critical role in strengthening local climate resilience, supporting biodiversity, and laying the groundwork for a sustainable future in the Boeny region.

Our holistic landscape restoration strategy includes:

• Active reforestation and restoration of 40,000+ ha of degraded forest across two forest types.
• Protection of 221,000+ ha of healthy forest cover in the landscape.
• Comprehensive, collaborative landscape restoration planning for two protected areas within the Boeny Region, including updated management plans.
• Fire mitigation efforts and agroforestry initiatives that address slash-and-burn agriculture as a primary driver of deforestation in the landscape.
• Identification and development of sustainable, forest-friendly value chains from forest and agroforestry products.
• Other initiatives co-developed during the project design phase.

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Anticipated Impact

Through your continued support, Eden is expanding our original reforestation efforts into comprehensive landscape restoration efforts to improve habitat connectivity, protect vital ecosystem services, and partner with communities toward sustainable livelihoods in northwestern Madagascar. Over the next 15 years, we anticipate that your contributions will result in the following transformative impacts:

• Restoration and reforestation of degraded mangrove and dry deciduous forests, revitalizing critical forest habitat.
• Protection of healthy forests and wildlife corridors, facilitating the movement and dispersal of biodiversity across the landscape.
• Collaborative revision of management plans for two protected areas, ensuring long-term conservation success.
• Fire prevention and management, addressing this driver at scale.
• Prevention of soil erosion in Madagascar’s second-largest rice production area, safeguarding a vital food source for local sustenance and export.
• Diversification of household incomes for communities within and near the project area, creating new value chains that incentivize regenerative practices on local farms and sustainable use of forests.
• Ongoing protection of reforestation efforts, including millions of trees we have planted in Madagascar to date.