Protecting Marojejy National Park’s Biodiversity
Project objectives
Carried out in tandem with community-based activities in the peripheral zone around Marojejy, boundary delimitation of the national park will reduce incursions of all types into the protected area.
Threats
Habitat loss & degradation
The reasons for the illegal incursions include hunting, collecting forest products for food or local construction, and the cutting of precious woods such as rosewood and ebony. Another longer term incursion occurs when over time adjacent cultivated areas begin to “sag” inward into the protected area, a little more each growing season, eventually encroaching on large swaths of the protected area.
A clearly delineated Marojejy National Park boundary will reduce all of the different types of incursions, and the community-based activities carried out in the park peripheral zone strengthens community relations.
This project is implemented by Duke University.
