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Madagascar - Asity Madagascar
BirdLife Partner Designate
Staff: 28
Lot IIN 83DM Analamahintsy, Antananarivo, MG
contact@asity-madagascar.org
www.asity-madagascar.org
Main contact persons:
Dr Aristide Andrianarimisa, Président, e-mail : aristide@wcs.org
Raminoarisoa Voninavoko, Coordonnateur, e-mail: vonyr@birdlife-mada.org
Mission of the organisation
Improved understanding of the biodiversity of Madagascar and its conservation in natural ecosystems, and the promotion of its scientific, social, economic, cultural and ecological importance in Madagascar and world-wide.
To bring together Malagasy biodiversity specialists and enthusiasts
To improve communication and exchange of information among specialists, and also between Asity Madagascar and national and international partners with similar goals
To contribute to the preservation and conservation of the environment and biodiversity of Madagascar
To promote the conservation of key species, sites and habitats with the active participation of local communities to improve their quality of life
To develop research programmes on Madagascar's environment and biodiversity, especially in the realm of ornithology
To collaborate with national and international partners to safeguard Madagascar's natural heritage
To promote an ornithological reference structure in Madagascar
To strengthen the capacity of the Association's members
To ensure the sustainability of activities of Asity Madagascar
Over 600 bird species have already been impacted by climate change
More than 2,000 local groups actively monitor and conserve "their" Important Bird Areas. They are BirdLife's eyes and ears on the ground, watchdogs of the state of IBAs, and passionate campaigners for their protection.
In a Norwegian longline fishing trial, the use of a bird-scaring line dropped bird bycatch to zero, while fish catch increased by 30%
BirdLife-inspired mitigation measures have been shown to reduce long-lining seabird bycatch by an average of 80%
BirdLife Partners each year directly involve over 4 million children in conservation education activities
There is 1 member of BirdLife staff for every 1.4 species of bird; or 5.6 members of staff for every bird species threatened with extinction
When complete, the global network of Important Bird Areas is likely to comprise around 15,000 IBAs- covering 7% of the world's land surface (equivalent to the size of Europe!)
BirdLife coordinated the Migratory Birds Committee, which fostered cooperation between countries, enabling affluent European countries where the birds breed to provide funding and expertise to poorer African countries with important passage and wintering
The BirdLife Partnership owns or manages more than one million hectares of nature reserves in 25 countries
"It is fair to say that without the BirdLife IBA project tens of thousands of people in the Caribbean would not have been exposed to bird and site conservation issues"
BirdLife's global education initiative "Save the birds, save the trees, save the earth" involved 2,000 schools and 15,000 children from 29 countries
20% of the world's birds occur in less than 1% of the world's land area
The BirdLife Partnership's programmes and projects rely on a global budget of over US$500 million
National IBA books have been published in local languages in more than 40 countries, and made available to conservationists, politicians and concerned local people
Shared responsibilities/Sharing is caring: 99% of countries and territories worldwide support at least one globally threatened bird species
16 bird species were rescued from the brink of extinction in the last decade because of conservation action
Asian vulture populations declined by 95% in less than a decade - BirdLife work has now halted this decline
Since biodiversity is not evenly distributed around the globe, the IBA approach can represent a cost-effective and efficient approach to conservation, because a relatively small network can support disproportionately large numbers of species
The BirdLife Partnership owns or manages more than one million hectares of nature reserves in 25 countries (that's equivalent to a third of the size of Belgium)
BirdLife is calling for the importance of healthy ecosystems to be written into national, regional and international climate change and development policy
BirdLife's first ever World Bird Festival (2001) attracted over 300,000 people to more than 1,200 events in 88 countries
Agricultural expansion has already impacted 87% of globally threatened bird species
BirdLife estimates that fishing gear killed two million seabirds between 2000 and 2010 in Europe alone
1,200 volunteers and a network of volunteer coordinators invested 30,000 hours in fieldwork for SEO/BirdLife's Atlas of Wintering Birds in Spain
BirdLife demonstrated the intimate link between biodiversity conservation and poverty reduction through community-centred projects at Important Bird Areas
Bar-tailed Godwit travel 11,000km across the Pacific Ocean- the longest non-stop journey ever recorded for a bird
40% of the earth's surface is comprised of ocean that no single nation has control over
BirdLife is able to assert that it has never knowingly turned its back while a bird species became extinct
75% of all bird species are found in forests, chiefly in the tropics
10,985 BirdLife Important Bird Areas (IBAs) have been created in over 200 countries and territories, with over 2000 Local Conservation Groups protecting "their" IBAs
BirdLife inspired mitigation measures have been shown to reduce long-lining seabird bycatch by an average of 80%
BirdLife has facilitated legally binding protection for more than 2,000 Important Bird Areas. Overall, 40% of all global 11,000 IBAs enjoy some degree of protection
3/4 of threatened bird species on oceanic islands are affected by invasive species
136 bird species have been classified as extinct since 1500
Due to BirdLife capacity building, four of the six BirdLife Partners in the tropical Pacific now have the technical knowledge, experience and support networks to undertake restoration of important islands
800,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions are to be avoided through forest protection in Paraguay
In 1968, BirdLife purchased an entire island in Seychelles to save the Critically Endangered Seychelles Warbler and formed a brand new conservation NGO there
So far, Important Bird Areas have been identified in 200 countries
7 million hectares of tropical forest are destroyed each year (the size of Ireland)
The 117 civil society organisations forming the BirdLife Partnership have a wealth of knowledge and technical skills amounting to a total of 6,443 years of experience
Between 1978 and 1988, BirdLife carried out more than 140 projects in Europe and Africa, building networks and supporting existing conservation bodies, and founding NGOs in countries where there had been no previous organisations devoted to the study and
Locally, people take pride in their wildlife, especially if it is unique, and connections with nature are an important part of culture and identity
70,000 hectares of Africa's most threatened forests have been protected by BirdLife (Gola Rainforest National Park Sierra Leone)
129 Important Bird Area publications have been produced so far, covering all or part of 83 countries
Access to nature and green spaces improves people's physical and mental health, makes communities more attractive, and often contributes to local regeneration
BirdLife has been working in tropical forest conservation in over 50 countries for decades
No boundaries: from pole to pole, a staggering eighty thousand kilometres round trip is the migration that Arctic Terns make every year
The IBA network in Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda captures nearly all (90-97%) of the region's threatened or endemic mammals, snakes and amphibians
BirdLife recognised early on that conservation has to enhance human well-being tangibly in order to be fully embraced by local people, and BirdLife Partners are very well positioned to engage with local communities in their countries
In some cases, the simple inexpensive measures introduced to fisheries to dramatically reduce seabird kills, actually increase fish catches for the fishermen
BirdLife wins leadership in conservation award in Africa
BirdLife International is the first recipient of the exceptional leadership award in environmental management and governance in Africa. The award was given by NEPAD, an economic development programme of the African...
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