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Thanal is a Voluntary Organisation registered as a Public Charitable Trust. Thanal owes its origin to the network named Thanal Conservation Action and Information Network, working since 1986 and now the members of this network has registered itself as a Public Charitable Trust in December, 2003.
Thanal has the following objects declared in its memorandum of declaration as a trust.
a. To carry out research, on matters pertaining to environmental health, environmental justice, biodiversity, natural history, sustainable agriculture, social justice and public health and to advocate on the same and plan and implement action programmes for the effective dissemination of the findings, in public interest.
b. To carry on educational activities among the public for creating environmental awareness by conducting educational programmes and through publication of printed materials , production, screening, exhibition and broadcasting of audio-visual materials.
c. To conduct national and international campaigns on matters of environmental justice and environmental health so as to build public opinion for a clean, healthy and safe environment.
d. To plan and implement action programmes focussing on environmental education, conservation of biodiversity and ecosystems, natural history, sustainable and poison free agriculture, toxic free production and clean industries.
e. To build up public opinion against activities, which has long-term adverse impacts on environment and humanity, and to intervene in such matters immediately by taking appropriate and effective measures includig legal action, to prevent such destruction and to protect the public assets and natural heritage.
f. To start institutions to undertake and encourage programmes and research projects to achieve trust objectives.
g. To develop and implement schemes for environmentally sound policies, guidelines and practices.
h. To affiliate organisations and provide technical support for conservation programmes.
i. To provide support for those groups and individuals engaged in production of ecologically and economically sustainable products.
j. To facilitate capacity building and impart training for the weaker sections in the society with special emphasis to help begin and run sustainable employment generating activities.
k. To provide a platform and to form a collective network of individuals and institutions with a mission "Gather for all beings."
From a Natural History learning Centre working on an informal way networking with organisations and individuals with common interests in protecting and nourishing the environment, Thanal has evolved into a public-interest research, campaign and advocacy organisation. In the last five years Thanal has started working on various issues, with Environmental Health and Justice as its foundation. It is in the process of institutionalising the Trust and setting up clear processes for growth, capacity building among the staff and volunteers and also for bringing in visible accountability. Much of the organisational matters are still evolving and we see the next two years as period of maturing.
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