Anja Park – an ecotourism success story in Madagascar

Frank Janssens, a travel professional in Madagascar, visited the highly successful and world-renowned Anja Park ecotourism project, to find out if it had suffered from the pandemic.

Anja has grown into a powerhouse of community-led conservation […]. The small forest fragment that spurred the creation of the protected area remains intact, and the local association that runs Anja […] has begun to expand it by replanting native trees on the surrounding hillsides. The reserve now earns enough revenue to employ 85 guides and animal spotters and to fund a wide array of community projects, says Rowan Moore Gerety, who’s a writer at Mongabay.