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Commonwealth NGOs
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 Grupo de Trabalho Ambiental
Rua General Pereira de Eça nş 214
Maputo
Mozambique
Email: gtamb@zebra.uem.mz
Website: www.gta.org.mz
Type: NGO
Scope: national
Interest in Forestry: peripheral
Description
GTA is a non-governmental organization that deals with research, Education and consultancy in environmental
area.
GTA is composed of a group of Mozambican, specialized in various areas related to environment with a
great working experience in different technical areas and social-economic activities in
Mozambique.
The constitution of this organization, endowed with its own legal status, which aims at carrying out
environmental activities, based on the communities participation in the prevention and solving of
environmental problems.
The GTA proposal has as its basis, the large population experience gained along the centuries. GTA pretends
to recover and disclose more.
GTA would like to be a vector of this process and, at the same time defend the modern technique of conservation
and prevention of nature.
GTA has emerged at the time of most of the big countries in the world are employing in the same process
in better and greater attention to nature problems.
Mozambique acts within this framework as an integral part of this universal movement which has been
mobilizing efforts, various resources and brains to fight against environmental degradation.
GTA has a work program, which aims essentially on the following:
Environment Education Area: to develop at all levels of the society, respect for the nature and ensure
adequate natural resources use, through training people and awareness on all issues regarding
environment so that sustainability of the environment may be guaranteed;
Research Area: to study the natural resource dynamics upon certain types of use in order to influence
and/or alter the current usage systems;
Development Area: to establish pilot projects for protection and sustainable utilization of various
natural resources
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