Partners

The centre is responsible for the training and professional development of pharmaceutical workers and dispensers.

Our joint actions:

Since 1998, Klorane Botanical Foundation has supported educational initiatives at the Apprentice Pharmacist Training Centre: phytochemistry workshops, guided visits to the Pierre Fabre Botanical Conservatory (Soual), herbarium competitions and technical plant data sheets. A collaboration that is still going strong over 15 years later!

A major institution in Argentina and one of the city's main tourist attractions. This garden was created 120 years ago by the French landscape architect and urban planner Charles Thays. It currently houses 3,700 living species from 200 different botanical families, as well as a herbarium of 4,630 plants. A large part of the garden is dedicated to indigenous Argentinian tree species. In addition to its historical and cultural significance, it plays an important role in the creation of educational projects.


Its missions:

• to expand and increase plant diversity,
• to make valuable botanical information available to the public: herbariums, libraries…
• to educate children on plant biodiversity.

Cœur de Forêt is a French association created in 2005, under the law of 1901. It has been working for more than 15 years to preserve and enhance the value of forests and human beings, based on 4 pillar actions:

●    REFORESTING: restoring and preserving the biodiversity in forest ecosystems, through sustainable forest management.
●    AWARENESS: raising awareness among children and adults regarding the preservation of their forest heritage and its uses.
●    SUPPORT: empowering producers in agroforestry production systems
●    MARKETING for the benefit of small producers for fair and transparent trade

Given the alarming fact that the natural resources of the forests are overexploited, providing only minor subsistence to the local populations, Coeur de Forêt aims for a global integration of development issues within its projects and puts Man and Biodiversity at the heart of the focus and concerns.
Klorane Botanical Foundation is a partner of the "Heart of Flores" project in Indonesia.

Initiative Développement has accompanied underprivileged communities since 1996 by providing a sustainable answer to their basic needs. The organization has been implementing the project on the improvement of the Ylang Ylang industry in Anjouan since 2013.

International Union for Conservation of Nature

The IUCN is the largest and oldest global environmental protection organization. It brings together over 1,000 governments and NGOs and close to 10,000 experts from nearly 160 countries.

Its missions:

• to help the world develop pragmatic solutions to nature protection and sustainable development challenges,
• to encourage scientific research and field projects.

Our joint actions:

Klorane Botanical Foundation has partnered with the IUCN to raise the public's awareness of topics relating to the protection of species, such as the preservation of Mediterranean medicinal plants, an ancient heritage that must be preserved for the future.

Kinomé is a social enterprise that has been supporting private and public decision-makers since 2005 in co-creating and implementing high-impact strategies for people and nature. Forestry, biodiversity, climate, nutrition... the teams are committed to responding to these immense challenges throughout the world. Trees are key to their projects, always a source of inspiration! Kinomé means the eye of the tree in Japanese.

Kinomé initiated the Forest&Life educational programme in 2010.
 

The Mas de la Serre Mediterranean Garden is located in the hills above Banyuls-sur-Mer in Pyrénées-Orientales, overlooking the Baillaury Valley.

The botanists of the Mas de la Serre Garden are assisted by the managers of the Massane forest reserve a few kilometres away. This protected forest is one of the few old-growth forests in France.

Our joint actions:
Klorane Botanical Foundation has partnered with this garden for its action to raise the public's awareness of the importance of the heritage that is composed of the Mediterranean medicinal plants.

"Getting to know plants and mushrooms in order to love them; loving their richness in order to protect them": this is the AMBHHC's lovely motto. This association brings together plant and mushroom lovers to identify the species of Haut Languedoc in order to better understand and preserve them.

Our joint actions:

Klorane Botanical Foundation provides support to the association and helps hold the Bédarieux Botanical Events which present, each year, exhibits and conferences on the local biodiversity.

Of approximately 3,000 different plant species found in Corsica, 5% do not exist anywhere else in the world. A treasure chest of plant biodiversity! This conservatory's mission is to preserve the richness of the island's flora.

Our joint actions:

The National Botanical Conservatory of Corsica has partnered with Klorane Botanical Foundation to teach the general public about the Mediterranean flora's importance for humanity, including the plants' medicinal uses.

This prestigious public research centre is probably the most famous one in France. Through its 1,053 laboratories, it covers every scientific field, from the social sciences and humanities to chemistry and nuclear physics.

A major producer of Nobel prizes and Fields medals, the CNRS has a gift for revealing talents and, more importantly, for furthering knowledge.

Our joint actions

We work together on an extensive project, the Great Green Wall, in Senegal.

Goal

To halt the desert's advance by planting desert date trees to create a green barrier that cuts across Africa from East to West.

Created in Senegal by the CNRS, OHMi's purpose is to study the impact of the plantations of the "Great Green Wall" project from an ecological, medical and social viewpoint.

The first four research topics had to do with desertification: water and soil // biodiversity // social systems // healthcare.

Our joint actions

It was the Great Green Wall project, to revegetate a wide strip of land across Africa, that brought us together for the Senegalese section, as this observatory was created in the context of that project.

Pro Natura is a hundred-year-old Swiss association dedicated to protecting the country's nature. It manages over 600 nature reserves and is involved in many projects, with the following goals:

• to preserve biodiversity
• to help species that are now rare become common
• to preserve unbuilt natural areas
• to seek out alternatives to unlimited growth.

Our joint actions

We have worked together in Switzerland to save the alpine sea holly, or Eryngium alpinum.

This association is a network of French-speaking botanists from around the world, based in Montpellier.

Its missions

• to facilitate the sharing of botanists' knowledge,
• to make their knowledge widely accessible,
• to conduct innovative research projects surrounding plants.

Our joint actions

Klorane Botanical Foundation has partnered with this network of botanists to offer participative science programs to the general public: the Observatory of the Seasons, the study of wild plants in the city, the development of an interactive flora. The aim of these initiatives is the discovery of the local natural world and the fostering of civic engagement for its preservation.

For over 40 years, the Natural Spaces Conservatories have been helping to protect our natural heritage and landscapes through their coordinated approach and local ties.

The 24 Natural Spaces Conservatories manage a coherent and functional network of 3,800 natural sites covering 145,000 ha in mainland and overseas France (the island of New Caledonia). These sites are managed across over 4,000 local authorities (or 1 in every 8 local authority in France).

This network contributes to the “Green and Blue Belt”.

The Natural Spaces Conservatories are non-profit organisations. They count more than 1,000 staff members and 9,300 members among their ranks.

Since their initial foundation with the support of the State, local authorities and private partners, these administrative bodies have become renowned for their targeted and coordinated initiatives, and acknowledged as specialists for their scientific and technical expertise.

The conservatories forge complementary partner relationships with all players involved in biodiversity, by launching local projects alongside the other managers of natural spaces.

They also help implement contractual policies: they are the main private stakeholders involved in implementing NATURA 2000 in France and have long been involved in the creation of ecological corridors.

The activities of the Natural Spaces Conservatories revolve around land acquisition and management. They rely on a coordinated approach that more effectively considers the environmental, social and economic challenges of the local areas.

Their approach is based on 4 key principles: knowledge, protection, management and development.

It trains approximately 140 pharmacists each year. Most of them focus on work in pharmacies, while others turn towards the pharmaceuticals, cosmetics or biotechnology industries, hospitals, medical analysis laboratories, universities or research bodies. Research training is also offered.

Our joint actions:

Through a long-standing partnership, Klorane Botanical Foundation assists students with their botany-related study modules, including the design of herbariums and the completion of university theses. The pharmacognosy professors provide us with scientific support for botanical publications on the medicinal usages of plants for healthcare professionals.