Netlink Environmental Conservation Organisation

Netlink Environmental Conservation Organisation (NECOR) is an environmental non-governmental organisation based in Nigeria. According to its own materials, it was founded out of the need to ensure the optimum participation and involvement of all stakeholders — including local communities — in the sustainable management of natural resources. It describes itself as the umbrella body for the Environmental Conservation Club (ECC), a network that seeks to instil environmental-conservation consciousness in young people as a way of gathering the support and effort needed to tackle the many environmental challenges facing humanity. NECOR's stated mission is to provide, through established Environmental Conservation Clubs and Local Community Groups (LCGs), a platform where views and ideas for achieving sustainable management of natural resources can be shared and integrated among members regardless of background, discipline, sex, race or religion, so that members' inherent potential can be harnessed toward the organisation's objectives at various levels. Its vision centres on ensuring the optimum participation and involvement of all relevant stakeholders, including local communities, in sustainable natural-resource management, and on inculcating environmental consciousness in youth through the establishment of Environmental Conservation Clubs at primary, secondary and tertiary levels. The organisation frames its work around global concerns such as declining biodiversity caused by indiscriminate and unsustainable harvesting, hunting and poaching without judicious attempts to replenish, replant or reproduce; and around climate change, citing UNEP and IPCC findings on the state of the Earth's biological resources and rising carbon dioxide and methane levels since the industrial revolution. It also points to Nigeria's high extreme-poverty population as part of the context in which it operates. NECOR's leadership team and Environmental Education Officers are described as having backgrounds in agriculture, climate change, forestry, economics, communications, business, law, human rights, wildlife and biodiversity. The organisation presents itself as taking a collective, multidisciplinary approach that treats the ideas, passion, enthusiasm, talent and strength of communities as essential to managing Nigeria's natural resources and fragile environment. It operates primarily in Nigeria and communicates through its website, necorng.org.

Netlink Environmental Conservation Organisation (NECOR) is an environmental non-governmental organisation in Nigeria. Its own account states that it was born out of the need to ensure the optimum participation and involvement of all stakeholders, including local communities, in the sustainable management of natural resources. The organisation positions itself as the umbrella body for the Environmental Conservation Club (ECC), a structure intended to inculcate environmental-conservation consciousness into young people as a way of gathering the support and effort needed to tackle the numerous environmental challenges confronting humanity. From its founding premise, NECOR has emphasised a collective, multidisciplinary approach. It argues that the ideas, passion, enthusiasm, talent and strength of communities toward achieving sustainable management of natural resources and a fragile environment cannot be ignored, and that a collective multidisciplinary approach is urgently required. This rationale underpins its two main vehicles: Environmental Conservation Clubs, established at primary, secondary and tertiary levels, and Local Community Groups (LCGs). NECOR's mission is to provide, through these clubs and community groups, a platform where views and ideas for achieving sustainable management of natural resources are shared and integrated among members irrespective of background, discipline, sex, race or religion, so that members' inherent potential can be properly harnessed toward the organisation's objectives at various levels. Its vision is framed around ensuring the optimum participation and involvement of all relevant stakeholders, including local communities, in sustainable natural-resource management, and around inculcating environmental consciousness in youth through the establishment of Environmental Conservation Clubs. The organisation situates its work in a global context of environmental decline. It notes that biodiversity has been increasingly declining as a result of indiscriminate and unsustainable harvesting, hunting and poaching without judicious attempts to replenish, replant or reproduce. It cites UNEP (2010) on the importance of the Earth's biological resources to humanity's economic and social development, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on increases in carbon dioxide and methane levels since the industrial revolution of 1750. It also references Nigeria's high extreme-poverty population as part of the context in which it operates. NECOR's team is described as comprising a leadership team and Environmental Education Officers with backgrounds in agriculture, climate change, forestry, economics, communications, business, law, human rights, wildlife and biodiversity. The organisation maintains a public presence through its website, necorng.org, where it publishes its mission, vision, concerns and team information. It operates primarily in Nigeria.

Community- and youth-focused environmental NGO promoting participatory, multidisciplinary sustainable management of natural resources in Nigeria.

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