Peace and security depend on the health of our planet, which is why former military personnel are committed to protecting the environment, so that everyone can live in a safer, cleaner, and fairer world. AISP is involved in environmental protection through its training program for protected natural areas rangers, directed by André Martinez-Humayou. The association also specialises in managing flows in sensitive natural environments and restoring coastal environments (dunes, grasslands, wetlands). The NGO is recognised through its environmental program director at the United Nations (UN), the World Bank, and the FFEM (French Global Environment Facility).

AISP has established numerous partnerships, including: a five-year framework agreement with the French Conservatoire du Littoral in 2017; a framework agreement with the association Ecologie sans Frontière (Ecology Without Borders) in Jijel, Algeria, in 2018; and a framework agreement to be signed in 2019 with Notre Grand Bleu (Our Big Blue) (Monastir) and the Ministry of the Environment in Tunis, Tunisia.

It is committed to deploying significant human and material resources, as well as maintaining a pool of environmental experts at its helm, to protect the environment. This involves a training program for rangers in protected natural areas, which offers former military personnel an opportunity to retrain and, more importantly, to fight for a cause that should be everyone’s priority. At the end of this training, a diploma could be awarded by the AISP’s national headquarters to certify the work done. The AISP has already carried out several missions abroad, including assessment missions, which are the subject of reports, as well as training, development, and safety missions.

One of the AISP Environment’s flagship missions was a project carried out on the military island of Sazan, Albania. Mr Martinez-Humayou made an initial visit to the site to assess the island’s military heritage. A report was written following this assessment, which you can find here. (For more information on this mission, go to the Albania tab.)

A series of agreements has also been signed to establish an environmental police force, as evidenced by the mission to Monastir, Tunisia, in early 2019. The AISP environment also visited Jijel, Algeria, for the first time in October 2016 to study the construction work on a school, and a second time in 2018 to carry out the school construction project.

Through its projects, monitoring, and missions (see the report on Saint-Louis, Senegal), the AISP offers former military personnel who wish to do so the opportunity to continue their fight and put their experience in the field at the service of the population and the planet. Through its expertise and through its environmental program director and all those who contribute to the achievement of its missions, the AISP remains more than ever a leading player on environmental issues.

The image below is the diploma awarded at the end of the training cycle provided by managers of sensitive natural areas and coastal guards.