{"id":7730,"date":"2016-03-23T11:03:53","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T11:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.blueventures.org\/?p=7730"},"modified":"2016-03-23T11:27:10","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T11:27:10","slug":"velondriake-villages-stake-claim-mangrove-conservation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.blueventures.org\/en\/velondriake-villages-stake-claim-mangrove-conservation\/","title":{"rendered":"Velondriake villages stake their claim to mangrove conservation"},"content":{"rendered":"

This year we\u2019re reflecting on the progress made by communities in the Bay of Assassins, Madagascar, who are leading the way in building a truly community led mangrove conservation project with the support of our Blue Forests team.<\/i><\/p>\n

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Wow, how time flies! I can\u2019t believe it\u2019s been more than 2 years since we started working with the communities of the Bay of Assassins – a vast mangrove bay within the Velondriake locally-managed marine area (LMMA) – to develop a Plan Vivo mangrove carbon project<\/a>. Since starting the project in late-2013, we\u2019ve completed a wide range of activities including community consultations, participatory resource mapping and <\/span>theory of change<\/a>, carbon fieldwork and reforestation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Through these activities we\u2019ve overcome numerous challenges, travelled by many different means of transport (car, zebu cart, motorised and sailing pirogues, with lots of walking in between!) and faced the climatic extremes of this coast (wind, rain and heatstroke, sometimes all in one day!).<\/p>\n

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Our zebu carts as we crossed the bay at the low tide.<\/p><\/div>\n

But what does all this actually mean? \u00a0Well aside from the huge wealth of benefits that mangroves provide communities, they\u2019re also one of the most important ecosystems on earth in terms of atmospheric carbon sequestration. \u00a0And the carbon that these forests are locking away is being released by deforestation – which for mangroves here in Madagascar is happening faster than for any other forest habitat. \u00a0By calculating how much carbon is in the mangroves of the bay, and understanding how quickly these mangroves would be lost on a \u2018business as usual\u2019 scenario, we\u2019re able to calculate how much carbon is retained in the ecosystem through Velondriake\u2019s efforts to conserve these critically important marine forests. \u00a0And by doing this, the villages of the Bay of Assassins will be able to generate Plan Vivo carbon credits; whose sale will fund and help incentivise sustainable mangrove management. The villagers chose the name \u2018Tahiry Honko\u2019 for their carbon project, which means \u2018to preserve mangroves\u2019 in our local Vezo dialect.<\/p>\n

That we have such a large percentage of mangroves under strict conservation regulations is a testament to the communities\u2019 commitment to protecting these forests.<\/span> Central to the project\u2019s success will be the community-designed mangrove management plans, which include sustainable harvest areas, reforestation zones and, most importantly, strict conservation areas called Tahiry Honko zones. These management plans were defined through an extensive participatory mapping campaign, during which people from each of the ten villages around the Bay deliberated and drew up the zones on printed satellite imagery. The Tahiry Honko zones cover 380 ha of the 1,500 ha of mangrove present within the Bay. Underpinning these zones are local by-laws \u2013 dinas<\/i> \u2013 that govern what can and can\u2019t be done in each zone, for example no mangrove cutting is allowed.<\/p>\n

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These missions have been an excellent opportunity for our team to work with Zo, pictured, our Geospatial Scientist who is normally based in Ambanja in the northwest of Madagascar. Following a month of training in GIS in California, USA, he shared his new skills with the team and led the delineation missions.<\/p><\/div>\n

Mangroves are not just forests and carbon stores; they are also a critical part of Velondriake\u2019s wider marine ecosystem, providing a safe breeding ground for many of the important fisheries in the region. Recognising the importance of the fisheries of these submerged forests as a primary source of food and income, the Bay\u2019s communities have also prohibited night fishing and poison fishing in the Tahiry Honko areas. <\/p>\n

This integration of fisheries measures alongside forestry regulations, in a community conservation project, is globally unique in the world of forest carbon projects, and is apt for an initiative so intrinsically linked to an LMMA.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For these zones and laws to exist on paper is one thing, but in order for local people to be clear about the location of each management zone, each area needs to be delineated \u2013 or staked \u2013 on the ground. This is no simple task, and has involved a series of zoning missions, each of which has involved three community members \u2013 each selected through open village meetings. These representatives then reported back to the all the villagers the actions taken during the delineation.<\/p>\n

The first zone we delimited was Bejoho, an area shared by the villages of Lamboara and Ankilimalinike. It took over 2 hours in a zebu cart on a rocky road under the scorching sun to reach the site. Once there, our first task was to paint \u2018Tahiry Honko\u2019 in red paint on white plaques.\u00a0The actual delineation work began at sunrise the next day, following a \u2018fomba\u2019 (ancestral rite) performed by the eldest of the community representatives. This is an important local ritual, during which elders ask for blessing from their ancestors. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Fomba – the eldest people from the delineation participants held one bottle of red rum while asking for blessing from their ancestors.<\/p><\/div>\n

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To mark the zones, trees were painted every 50 m and signs erected every 300 m, with the zoning teams navigating around buttress roots, sticking mud, and razor sharp bivalves, all of which made progress treacherous at times.<\/p><\/div>\n

Conflicts arose at times during this process, such as when the community members didn\u2019t agree with the zones that were defined at the village meetings. This was particularly a challenge when integrating the needs and patterns of migrant fishers, who move around a lot following fisheries throughout the year, and sometimes complained that their interests hadn\u2019t been recognised during the zoning process. Further meetings were held to resolve this, bringing together migrants and village elders, to ensure everyone understood the zones and were happy with their location; rezoning as necessary.<\/p>\n

It took three strenuous weeks of fieldwork and numerous follow-up consultations to ensure that everyone was happy with and understood the areas delineated as Tahiry Honko. It wasn\u2019t easy, but we\u2019re proud and humbled at the result: 380 ha of Tahiry Honko zones are now zoned on the ground, which is a massive achievement for the communities of the Bay of Assassins, and will pave the way for mangrove conservation and future income from carbon credits. Through the process we\u2019ve learnt a lot about the communities of this remarkable bay, and also forged some great friendships with local people by working closely together in the challenging field environment. Next step\u2026\u2026the sustainable harvest and reforestation zone delineations! Someone pass the sunscreen and water \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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We would like to thank the MacArthur Foundation and the GEF Blue Forests project for supporting this work, and also recognise the Darwin Initiative for earlier support of our Blue Forests<\/a> initiative.<\/i><\/p>\n

Find out more about our work conserving Madagascar\u2019s blue forests <\/i>here<\/span><\/i><\/a>. The Tahiry Honko community carbon project is featured in this film<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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