Madagascar National Parks, formerly known as ''l'Association Nationale pour la Gestion des Aires Protégées'' (ANGAP), was founded in 1991 and is charged with managing a network of 46
National Parks
A national park is a natural park in use for conservation purposes, created and protected by national governments. Often it is a reserve of natural, semi-natural, or developed land that a sovereign state declares or owns. Although individual ...
,
Special Reserves and Integral
Nature Reserves
A nature reserve (also known as a wildlife refuge, wildlife sanctuary, biosphere reserve or bioreserve, natural or nature preserve, or nature conservation area) is a protected area of importance for flora, fauna, or features of geological or o ...
in
Madagascar
Madagascar (; mg, Madagasikara, ), officially the Republic of Madagascar ( mg, Repoblikan'i Madagasikara, links=no, ; french: République de Madagascar), is an island country in the Indian Ocean, approximately off the coast of East Africa ...
.
It is a private association that is legally recognised to have a
public function
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The union was founded in 1980, when the National State Federation merged with the National Federation of Local Authorit ...
, and it operates under the supervision of the ministry responsible for the
environment
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* Natural environment, all living and non-living things occurring naturally
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, which, in June 2008, is the Ministry of the Environment and Forests (MEF).
The association's mission is "To establish, conserve and sustainably manage a national network of parks and reserves representative of the
biological diversity
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and the natural heritage of Madagascar."
See also
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References
External links
Madagascar National ParksOfficial website (in English, French, German, Italian)
World Bank website on Conservation Project in Madagascar (in English, French)
Nature conservation in Madagascar
Environmental organisations based in Madagascar
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