A.P.S. GEA Onlus

National Network
Italy
Address

Via xx Aprile 1944, 27 35100
Padova
Italy

Telephone
0039 049 8278497
Fax
0039 049 8278451
E-Mail
info@geanatura.it
Mobile Phone
0039 340 7889355
Website
http://www.geanatura.it
Organisation Type
Other
Year of Establishment
1994
Fields of Activity
  1. Environment/Sustainable development
General Information
A.p.s. Gea Onlus is an international association for the study and conservation of eco-systems counting 3 full-time consultants, 1 half-time collaborator, 7 volunteers and 35 members. GEA works through projects and seminars. GEA main partners are Laboratory of Applied Psychology to Cooperation and Ecology (Lab PACE)-Department of Psychology- Padova University, Institut Scentifique de Rabat and Universitè Mohammed V, Association des Ensegnantes Scienses Vie et Terre (AESVT), Perilmondo Onlus association, Comune di Padova, Dipartimento di Psicologia ed Antropologia Culturale - Università di Verona, Faculty of Environmental Management - Prince of Songkla University, Chao Lay Culture and Environment International Association –(Thailand CCEIA). Budgetary resources available in a year are in average 100.000,00 euros. The main founding sources are private foundations, funds and prizes, italian regional funds for development cooperation, liberal and private donations, University of Padova, sponsorship (Rotary Club, Lyons Club, Charles Magne Fondation, Fondation Assistance International CH, CARITAS, WWF Med, etc.)
Mission and Objectives

GEA’s mission is to develop research and action project is to restore environment and improve conditions of marginalized and discriminated communities reducing their impact to the environment and fighting poverty. Training programs, capacity building and awareness are actions where GEA explores new research avenues to give sustainable opportunities and means to the communities. Research studies and research methods are integrated in GEA interventions to achieve sustainable development. We follow five leading key words: 1) Community participation, 2) Shared goals, 3) Self-implementing project, 4) Education-awareness, 5) Low cost to frame our intervention. Our projects are preceded by detailed context analysis and are constantly monitored to adhere to our five leading keywords. We focus on nomadic communities, the least addressed in sustainable development projects, on the impact of tourism in tribal communities, desertification process and human causes, biological indicators to monitor environmental degradation, pilot project for alternative low impact generating income activities.

Main Projects / Activities

THAILAND PROJECT
2005-2006 project: “Chao Lay after the Tsunami: formation for the sustainable development of an ostracized tribal community”.
MOROCCO PROJECT 1993-2003
Monitoring with the employment of biological indicators of the cedar forests in the Moroccan Middle Atlas.
THE NEW 2006-2007 MOROCCO PROJECT
“Desertification and human impact: Formation for the sustainable development of the last Amazigh tribes of the Moroccan Middle Atlas”
SMALL ISLANDS PROJECT
Socio-ecology of the Small Italian Islands
CASENTINO PROJECT
Census and monitoring, Casentino Forests National Park
INDONESIAN PROJECT
Rattan Celebes Island project (Sulawesi-Indonesia)
ZANZIBAR ROJECT
Evaluation of the impact of tourism on Zanzibar
PEMBA PROJECT
Pemba's Red Colobus survival and natural forest conditions
SRI LANKA PROJECT
Monitoring of the forest, the coral reef and Veddah project: an applied socio-eco-ethology project, Sri Lanka.

Contact (1) Full Name
Andrea Sigfrido Camperio Ciani
Head of the organisation
Andrea Sigfrido Camperio Ciani
Contact (2) Full Name
Nicolò Serena