Reforestation, Ambositra-Vondrozo Corridor (COFAV)

"Madagascar is known throughout the world as the home of unique animal species—lemurs, indris, sifakas, tenrecs, aye-ayes, and many more...By the twenty-first century, only about 16 percent of Madagascar's land remained in forest cover. In 2003, President Marc Ravalomanana made a commitment to triple Madagascar's land area under protection, covering about a tenth of the country...a large swath of land called the Ambositra-Vondrozo Corridor (COFAV) in southeastern Madagascar...Starting in 2007, the corridor program undertook a new approach to conservation, as part of a cooperative effort between the government of Madagascar and Conservation International (an NGO)...the effort aimed to create sustainable economies within the corridor that included nearby local communities as project managers...Taken together, these activities were successful in reducing deforestation and its resulting global warming emissions. In October 2013, third-party analyses determined that the COFAV reserve had reduced carbon dioxide emissions by some 2.2 million tons between 2007 and 2012."