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Partnership: Tandroy Conservation Trust, supported by the BP Conservation Programme, a partnership between BP, Fauna and Flora International, Conservation International, and the Wildlife Conservation Society.
Types of Partnership: Enabling activity for small business development in support of conservation.
Direct financial support by business to protected area (corporate or personal giving)
Site: Ifotaka Community Forest
Website(s): Tandroy Conservation Trust
Contact Name:
Phone:
Email:
Address:
In April 2001 Project Ifotaka, the forerunner to the Tandroy Conservation Trust, was awarded a £20,000 grant, the top award from the BP Conservation Programme. The BP Conservation Programme is a partnership between BP, Fauna and Flora International and Birdlife International.
Description: (source Pro-Poor Tourism Annual Register 20052005)
The Ifotaka Forest, located in southern Madagascar, is highly valued by the local community owing to its
sacred areas, lemur and bird populations and relatively intact spiny forest vegetation.The Ifotaka Community
Forest project has established southern Madagascar’s first and only genuinely community-owned tourism
resource. After two years, the facilities are now legally owned by the community and financial management
of entry fees and bungalow maintenance managed by the forest association (Mahatsara) and district authority
(Commune d’Ifotaka) respectively.Good basic infrastructure and community capacity building have been
achieved and a basic tourism offer is now available.
The project has had a significant impact on the local community.Anecdotal estimates of these impact include:
• Over 40 members of the community have benefited from casual employment which is likely to have
increased their annual income by up to 50% (guides, cooks, guards, forest committee workers, construction,
cleaning). Over 100 additional members of the community have had other casual employment with
a lower impact (<10%) on their annual income (physical labour, tree planting, forest committee meetings).
• At least 3 local businesses (transport, accommodation and food) have diversified or adapted their businesses
to include tourism service provision as a major component.
• Community income in the last 2 years from grant aid, tourism income would be in excess of £30,000 per
annum
Further information: ferguson.barry@gmail.com
Types of Partnership: Enabling activity for small business development in support of conservation.
Direct financial support by business to protected area (corporate or personal giving)
Site: Ifotaka Community Forest
Website(s): Tandroy Conservation Trust
Contact Name:
Phone:
Email:
Address:
In April 2001 Project Ifotaka, the forerunner to the Tandroy Conservation Trust, was awarded a £20,000 grant, the top award from the BP Conservation Programme. The BP Conservation Programme is a partnership between BP, Fauna and Flora International and Birdlife International.
Description: (source Pro-Poor Tourism Annual Register 20052005)
The Ifotaka Forest, located in southern Madagascar, is highly valued by the local community owing to its
sacred areas, lemur and bird populations and relatively intact spiny forest vegetation.The Ifotaka Community
Forest project has established southern Madagascar’s first and only genuinely community-owned tourism
resource. After two years, the facilities are now legally owned by the community and financial management
of entry fees and bungalow maintenance managed by the forest association (Mahatsara) and district authority
(Commune d’Ifotaka) respectively.Good basic infrastructure and community capacity building have been
achieved and a basic tourism offer is now available.
The project has had a significant impact on the local community.Anecdotal estimates of these impact include:
• Over 40 members of the community have benefited from casual employment which is likely to have
increased their annual income by up to 50% (guides, cooks, guards, forest committee workers, construction,
cleaning). Over 100 additional members of the community have had other casual employment with
a lower impact (<10%) on their annual income (physical labour, tree planting, forest committee meetings).
• At least 3 local businesses (transport, accommodation and food) have diversified or adapted their businesses
to include tourism service provision as a major component.
• Community income in the last 2 years from grant aid, tourism income would be in excess of £30,000 per
annum
Further information: ferguson.barry@gmail.com
