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Category: Madagascar

Ankeniheny-Zahamena Corridor, Madagascar: “The economic viabilities of carbon offsetting are ridiculous”

Posted on 27 February 20201 April 2020

By Chris Lang The Ankeniheny-Zahamena Corridor is an extremely biodiverse area of forest in the eastern part of Madagascar. It is one of the largest remaining areas of rainforest in the country. The Ankeniheny-Zahamena Corridor was designated as a national park in 2015.

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IFC’s forest bonds: Quantitative easing for sub-prime REDD carbon credits

Posted on 9 July 20199 November 2019

A recent report by the Rainforest Foundation UK describes the potential scaling up of the International Finance Corporation’s Forest Bonds programme as “One of the most worrying evolutions of GCF activities in the Congo Basin”.

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Madagascar’s poor pay the costs of the Ankeniheny-Zahamena Corridor REDD project in Madagascar

Posted on 17 July 201810 February 2020

A recent study looks at the costs to local communities of the Ankeniheny-Zahamena Corridor REDD project in eastern Madagascar. “Conservation restrictions result in very significant costs to forest communities,” the study concludes.

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Madagascar: What happens to REDD when there’s a sapphire rush?

Posted on 18 May 201718 May 2017

The Ankeniheny-Zahamena Corridor “has long been regarded as one of Madagascar’s top conservation priorities,” Conservation International tells us on its website. Conservation International is running a REDD project there covering more than 371,000 hectares.

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Guest Post: TAMS – Failed experiments with carbon in Madagascar

Posted on 22 December 20169 February 2018

In 2016, Sara Peña Valderrama completed her PhD in social anthropology, where she studied a forest carbon project run by Conservation International in Madagascar. Her thesis is available on Durham University’s website: Entangling Molecules: an ethnography of a carbon offset project in Madagascar’s eastern rainforest. She submitted this Guest Post about what happened when the project changed…

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