The Makira REDD+ Project

key impacts

• 372470 hectares protected

  Designed as a REDD+ project from the outset, Makira Natural Park preserves dense primary rainforest that forms a key part of the country’s eastern humid forest biome

• 82 community forest management associations (COBAs)

  Empowering 90,000 people to steward over 350,000 hectares of buffer forest through one of the world’s largest community co-management frameworks

• 59 globally threatened species

  Including 19 lemur species, five of which are Critically Endangered, such as the Silky Sifaka and Indri, alongside the Madagascar Red Owl and Serpent-Eagle, all benefiting from strong patrol coverage and restored habitat corridors

• 2379 hectares of forest corridors restored

  With a 96% survival rate between 2009–2023, over 1,070 km of boundaries marked, fire brigades trained, and aerial patrols maintained to curb illegal logging and forest fires

• 870000 tonnes CO₂ verified emissions avoided

  Certified under Verra’s VCS program (2005–2013) with  50% of proceeds allocated to communities, funding schools, water points, agricultural dams, and patrol infrastructure

• 400 households trained in sustainable rice intensification

  Over 80,000 fruit and cash-crop seedlings planted,  52 fishponds built, 13,000 chickens vaccinated and 387 community members directly engaged in insect farming