Celebrating NEST at 35

The Nigerian Environmental Study Action Team (NEST) is a leading national not-for-profit, sustainable development organisation that was founded in 1987, and officially registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission in 1988. As a membership organization, NEST set itself the overall goal of acting in concert with an active, nationwide membership to accomplish its mission, through the following operational objectives:

Rationale

Essentially, NEST is a non-governmental organization, dedicated to improving the ways by which we interact with the environment. NEST is determined to become increasingly self-supporting, though maintaining a compact and efficient organizational profile, with a highly professional and well-motivated staff conscious of the need to generate income while remaining prudent in resource use.

The motivation for the establishment of NEST is deeply rooted in the paradox of 'a natural resources blessed continent wallowing in bewilderment in the throes of poverty and want', especially in the last three decades, to the extent that disturbing pictures of hunger stricken Africans often appear on television screens.

Global attention may temporarily shift to areas of current conflicts, but the situation of famine and hunger, drought and desertification, water and wind erosion, and ecologically insensitive exploitation of renewable and non-renewable natural resources persist in Africa.
So, NEST's founding rationale remains largely unaltered.