Nature Tropicale

• Strengthening NT-ONG’s visibility – regular publication of results on social media, producing outreach materials, and radio/TV programmes.

• Contributing to conservation and sustainable environmental management aligned with Agenda 2030 – capacity building for stakeholders, databases on Benin’s threatened migratory species (marine turtles, African manatee, whales, elephants), advocacy and lobbying, running Environmental Education and Sustainable Development Centres in 4 communes, promoting wetland protection through an aquarium eco-museum, training women’s groups, training eco-guards to monitor natural resources, strengthening the African manatee sanctuary in the Oueme, Mono and Niger valleys, supporting Marine Protected Areas, promoting biogel against water hyacinth and biogas, advocacy for whale sanctuaries in Benin and Africa, professionalising whale-watching ecotourism, and training local communities in fish farming, agroecology, analog forestry and agroforestry, and combating environmental crime.

• Strengthening NT-ONG’s capacity and resources – updating its capacity-building plan, staff training, recruitment and staff motivation.

• Growing resource mobilisation – project cycle management training, seeking technical and financial partners and long-term funding, internal resource generation (training, ecotourism, museum visits), private-sector partnerships.

• Strengthening internal management and tools – renewing its government framework agreement and pursuing public-interest status, and building effective databases and data collection apps.

• Contributing scientific evidence to influence policy – research partnerships with universities and institutions, and publishing findings.

Created in 1995, Nature Tropicale ONG is a non-profit association, member of the IUCN. In addition to the partnership agreement, it has signed a framework agreement with the Government of Benin. Its mission is to promote the conservation and rational use of biodiversity, through education and awareness-raising among various stakeholders. Poor environmental governance, non-enforcement of environmental laws and low level of awareness among stakeholders are the origins of the creation of Nature Tropicale NGO.