Anitry Ny Aina Ratsifandrihamanana

Anitry Ny Aina Ratsifandrihamanana (Nanie) is a Malagasy conservationist and is the country director of WWF Madagascar and western Indian Ocean Islands.

Biography Ratsifandrihamanana studied English literature at the Ecole Normal Supérieure at the University of Antananarivo, but has always had an interest in nature. Her involvement in conservation began in the early 1990s when she was employed as an administrator on the USAID-funded project to establish Ranomafana National Park.

Ratsifandrihamanana started working for WWF Madagascar in 1999, working as conservation director from 2004 to 2013. In this capacity, she had a leading role in the implementation of the "Durban Vision" which resulted in the tripling of Madagascar's protected area network as she co-led the Malagasy Protected Area Commission over the critical years of 2005–2009.

In 2014, Ratsifandrihamanana took over the role of Country Director of WWF Madagascar and western Indian Ocean Islands. She is also a member of the IUCN World Commission on protected areas.

Advocacy Ratsifandrihamanana has been an outspoken critic of Madagascar's illegal wildlife trade and of exploitation of rosewood within protected areas.