Action in Madagascar: the World Bank, Ravalomanana and leadership

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Notes

1. See website: http://iosarn.com/.

2. This has also been termed the ‘authoritative plain style’ of the English‐speaking protestant scientific community, see Bennett (2007).

3. In September 2003, at the Durban World Parks Congress, Marc Ravalomanana made an impression with his ‘Durban Vision’ aiming by 2008 to increase by three times – from 1.7 to 6 million hectares – the amount of land under protected area status in Madagascar, a country with world heritage biodiversity. In November of the following year, the president launched his vision for the country – ‘Madagascar, naturellement’ – acknowledging Madagascar's endangered biodiversity, where some 478 unique genera of plants and vertebrates, such as lemurs (the most endangered primate species), are part of a national, sustainable economic growth strategy. When Ravalomanana was deposed in 2009, lemurs started appearing once again on restaurant tables, according to Conservation International (CI).