A Year of Impact: Highlights from CPALI’s New Annual Report

"We’re built on a simple belief: that local ideas can create transformative change. In this annual report, we proudly outline latest measures of our impact and extend gratitude to all who help our innovative conservation model to succeed."

Rachel Kramer, CPALI Executive Director

Changing Lives and Landscapes

Conservation through Poverty Alleviation International's (CPALI's) newly released Annual Report shares stories and milestones from the past year. It explores how locally led solutions in Madagascar are helping to regenerate landscapes, improve economic lives, preserve cultural traditions, and innovate nature-based materials. It also shares how partnership across oceans is delivering a transformative social enterprise at the intersection of science and art. In a year defined by political upheaval, extreme weather events, and economic uncertainty, our teams turned challenges into opportunities and ideas into action.

Photo: Local artisan trainees in northeastern Madagascar plant host trees for endemic silk-producing caterpillars in a farmer's agroforestry system near Masoala National Park (Rachel Kramer/CPALI).

Core Impact Areas

"We are working with local leaders to organize plantation of native trees that create new economic livelihoods for communities."

Mamy Rartsimbazafy, SEPALI Madagascar Director

In 2025, CPALI, together with the committed team and local leaders at Sehatry ny Mpamokatra Landy Ifotony: the Organization of Wild Silk Producers (SEPALI Madagascar), delivered impact in five areas:

• Empowering a new generation of farmers and artisans to participate in nature-based solutions.

• Collaborating with farmer leaders to enhance the biodiversity value of agricultural landscapes through regenerative agroforestry.

• Supporting local innovations, including exploring new varieties of wild rainforest silk.

• Piloting a forest-friendly fuel made from invasive plants for future user testing and scaling.

• Continuing to celebrate Malagasy traditional and contemporary textile arts and connect them to global audiences through the Fair Trade and Certified Wildlife Friendly social enterprise, Tanana Madagascar.

Looking Ahead

The stories and achievements highlighted in this year’s report reflect an important truth: that lasting conservation happens when people benefit directly from protecting the ecosystems they depend on. As CPALI continues to grow high-impact programs in the years ahead, we're grateful for the support of our partners, volunteers, and supporters in Madagascar, the United States, and beyond.

"CPALI now has a solid and impressive record of success in helping hundreds of families in Madagascar. What I find especially exciting is the strong prospect of extending their approach to many hundreds more."

Dr. Matthew Scott, Emeritus President of the Carnegie Institution for Science

and Emeritus Professor of Developmental Biology at Stanford University

Download the full Annual Report here.