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Research Seminar: 'Community-based conservation for people and wildlife in Madagascar: evaluating effectiveness'

  • Wednesday 14 February 2024, 12:00-1:30 pm (UK time)
  • R1.15, Ramphal Building
  • All Warwick staff, students, and alumni are welcome to attend.

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Abstract

Madagascar is a global biodiversity hotspot with high levels of species richness, threat and endemism: 90% of its plant species and 85% of its animal species are found nowhere else. My talk will highlight some key conservation efforts and give insights about what we have learned from a recent retrospective evaluation of the effectiveness of community-based conservation, a widely adopted approach, on conservation and human well-being. I showed that a programme run by Durrell Wildlife Madagascar was effective in improving education, somewhat effective in reducing forest loss and fires, and not effective in improving human well-being outcomes. My current research concerns internal migration in Madagascar driven by climate change and its environmental consequences.

Speaker

Dr Herizo Andrianandrasana

Herizo Andrianandrasana joined IGSD as a Research Fellow in July 2022. Prior to joining the University of Warwick, he was a civil servant in Madagascar, responsible for the environment in Analanjirofo and Analamanga. Prior to that, he was a conservation practitioner for Durrell Madagascar, with responsibility for ecological monitoring and protected areas.

Dr Andrianandrasana holds a PhD in evaluation methods from the Department of Zoology in the University of Oxford. His thesis was on 'Testing the effectiveness of community-based conservation in conserving biodiversity, protecting ecosystem services and improving human wellbeing in Madagascar'. He additionally holds a PgDip in International Wildlife Conservation from the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCrU) University of Oxford and an MSc and BSc in Forestry from the University of Antananarivo.


 

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