EnvironmentAs the environment is one of the principal key of the development the Malagasy Government encourages and takes initiatives in all the environmental fields in order to:
- contribute to reverse the current tendency to the environmental degradation
- promote bearable models fo the use of the natural resources
- better integrate the local populations in the environmental concerns (GELOSE: protected local management)
- introduce all new technologies to answer the Kyoto Protocol: solar and wind energies, biomass fuels
- triple the conservation areas in order to carry out the objectives
The Department of Environment, in close cooperation with International Organizations, makes a remarkable effort in order to promote an harmonization between the environment degradation and the socio-economic development, as well as the formation (CFSIGE: Centre de Formation aux Sciences de l'Information Géographique et de l'Environnement)
The following sites are for your information:: ONE (Office National de l'Environnement), ANGAP (Association Nationale pour la Gestion des Aires Protégées), WWF, WCS, CI, ANAE
The forests
The forests play a vital role for the living organisms
Currently in Madagascar the forests cover only 1.3 % of the national territory. One can be found 166 Classified Forests (38.6 % of the forest resources), 79 Forest reserves (21 % of the resources), 151 Perimeters of Reforestation and Restoration (15.9 % of the resources) and 2 Forest Stations (0.3 % of the resources).
At the present time, the Malagasy Government is mobilizing all its entities for reforestation, its main objectives is as ecological as environmental.
Promotion of renewable energies
Several projects regarding the wind, the solar energies and the production of biomass fuels (ethanol and bio diesel) are under way in Madagascar.
In 2008 the objective is to replace the 5 % of the fossil fuel of renewable energy.
Management of water resources
The water is regarded as the gold of the millennium. It is essential for the man survival and for any living organism. Moreover the water may be a source of energy. In Madagascar the Code of Water was promulgated in order to organize the Water sector and the water cleaning sector. The access to drinking water for 80% of the Malagasy people in 2015 is a challenge for the Government.