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Email

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Telephone

(+237) 674-545-538

Website

https://ammco.org/

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Activities

Our mission is to contribute to the protection of the aquatic megafauna and their habitats in Central Africa by improving the scientific knowledge and involving fishers and other stakeholders into sustainable fisheries and responsible watershed-use. To achieve our mission, we identified four strategies including applied research and monitoring, integrated management, awareness and capacity building. The research and monitoring conducted by AMMCO are meant not only to provide scientific knowledge of the species, but are also crutial in the process of adaptive management that AMMCO has adopted. AMMCO is very concerned about acurately measuring the effectiveness of its actions and strategies to ensure that we are really conserving what we said we are. AMMCO monitored both aquatic megafauna and their habitats. Because aquatic megafauna such as manatees receive only very little attention from public in Central Africa, they are abandoned to devastating anthropic pressure from fishing, hunting and industrial pollution. Therefore, we endeavor to raise people interest to manatees and other aquatic megafauna and make them well known and cherished. This is being done through environmental education, sensitization and civic engagement. AMMCO is conscious about the fact that species-based conservation alone is not sustainable for the long-term management of aquatic megafauna species. Therefore, in addition to providing direct protection to our target species, we also endeavor to take into account local people and other stakeholder’s interests and work in close partnership with them to protect and restore habitats and mitigate anthropogenic pressures and drivers on the species. Hence, AMMCO works in close collaboration with the local communities and other stakeholders for a participative decision-making and implementation. AMMCO uses the following actions for the conservation of the aquatic megafauna: Protection, Restoration, Good local governance, Community-based conservation, Alternative livelihood and Advocacy. Aquatic research requires advanced skills and experience which are rarely taught in academic institutions of African developing countries. AMMCO seek to contribute to the human resource gap in the field of aquatic megafauna conservation and research. Hence, AMMCO is devoted to immersing the next generation of African researchers in the field of marine mammal research and exposed them to various conservation techniques. Therefore, we provide internship, mentorship, and workshops to students and fishermen frequently.

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