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Mission

Nature Concerns. Inc strives to move environmental issues from the arid level of academic and expert conferencing to the field of the everyday practice of the lives of communities involved in the struggle for production and sustainable development in our rural and urban areas. It seeks to support and empower people in building a more secure and equitable future through the rational management of renewable and non-renewable natural resources, and also to find solutions to social and environmental problems in the spirit of generosity and mutual respect.

Vision

To strive as much as possible to be updated as far as environmental diplomacy is concerned and to work hard in changing the mindsets of the grassroot population in Cameroon so that they best understand how environmental issues are evolving internationally and nationally and how these same issues impact on the daily lives; and how they can be best armed so as to derive as much benefits as possible and also the mechanisms through which they can contribute in influencing environmental concerns nationally and globally.

Objectives

To study our environment and its varied and vulnerable ecosystems, identifying the factors which favour or impair sustainable development.

To carry out feasibility studies in the following domains: Forestry and agro-forestry, crop and livestock production, biodiversity, sustainable tourism, renewable energy, pollution abatement, water, waste management, environmental impact etc

To partake in the on-the-ground exceution of some of the projects after the feasibility studies in close collaboration with beneficiary populations and other stakeholders.

To propagate environmental awareness through the training of trainers and direct field action at grassroot level

To educate business people on the virtues of investing in environmental enterprise projects

Strategies

We employ the concept of problem-based learning via community particpation in the identification of all environmental problems such as deforestation, declining soil fertility, abrupt rise in temperatures (global warming), distortion of the hydrological cycle, disapperance of vital medicinal plant and animal species, which hitherto were abundant, many disease outbreaks, etc; while examining their causes and looking for solutions.

We work with community groups, ie beneficiaries, consultants, other local NGOs/ civil society organisations, government departments and foreign agencies involved in environmental enterprise issues to propose and help implement policy initiatives especially those bound by international conventions.

We make maximum use of the global information infrastructure so as to be very abreast with international environmental issues especially those which affect us locally.