On January 30 to 31, 2020, the Minister responsible for the environment, accompanied by officials of the Ministry, carried out a field trip to inquire about the state of affairs of protected areas in the south of the country. The protected areas visited are:

• Kigwena Forest Nature Reserve;
• Vyanda Nature Reserve and Malagarazi Nature Reserve.

During this descent, anthropogenic actions were observed that threaten these protected areas, among others:

• installation of residential houses within protected areas, thus threatening their integrity and biodiversity in particular;
• boundaries of protected areas not respected by the local population in search of agricultural land.