Form 990 for tax year 2022

Totals

Total revenue

$834,495

Total expenses

$680,145

Contributions and grants received

$800,496

Grants paid

$0

Program service revenue

$33,999

Investment income

$0

Other revenue

$0

Total assets, end of year

$269,360

Total liabilities, end of year

$13,746

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$255,614

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$642,406

Management and general expenses

$37,739

Fundraising expenses

$0

Program service expenses (Part III)

$642,406

Program services were 94.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2022

• THE AFRICAN MANATEE PROGRAM LEADER SUPERVISED FOUR GRADUATE STUDENTS AND 13 TRAINEES FROM FIVE COUNTRIES AND CONDUCTED FIELDWORK PROGRAMS IN SENEGAL AND GUINEA. ONE AFRICAN MANATEE CARCASS WAS RECOVERED AND SAMPLED (SENEGAL). AFRICAN MANATEE GENETICS, FEEDING ECOLOGY, AND AGE DETERMINATION STUDIES CONTINUED WITH COLLABORATORS FROM SIX AFRICAN COUNTRIES. WE LED EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH PROGRAMS IN EIGHT SCHOOLS IN JOAL, SENEGAL THAT REACHED ALMOST 2000 STUDENTS. THE PI AND COLLABORATORS PUBLISHED FOUR BOOK CHAPTERS AND ONE SCIENTIFIC MANUSCRIPT. AN ADDITIONAL EIGHT SCIENTIFIC MANUSCRIPTS AND FOUR BOOK CHAPTERS ARE IN PREPARATION.

  Expenses $101,290

• THE WEST AFRICAN SEA TURTLE PROGRAM LED PROJECTS IN GABON, EQUATORIAL GUINEA AND COTE D'IVOIRE. IN GABON WE CONTINUED TO COORDINATE THE GABON SEA TURTLE PARTNERSHIP, A NETWORK OF PROJECTS TO PROTECT SEA TURTLES AND THEIR HABITAT THROUGH BEACH SURVEILLANCE, RESEARCH, THREAT REDUCTION, CAPACITY-BUILDING AND OUTREACH. WE CONTINUED ANALYSIS OF THE LONG-TERM NATIONAL DATABASE OF NESTING ACTIVITIES FOR IMMINENT PUBLICATION. IN EQUATORIAL GUINEA WE CONTINUED TO MONITOR SEA TURTLE THREATS AND CONDUCTED A NATIONAL AWARENESS-RAISING CAMPAIGN, AS WELL AS COMPLETING A MANUSCRIPT ON THE INTER AND POST-NESTING BEHAVIOUR OF LEATHERBACK FEMALES BASED ON SATELLITE TELEMETRY. IN COTE D'IVOIRE WE CONTINUED TO COLLABORATE WITH LOCAL PARTNERS TO MONITOR AND PROTECT 50 KM OF NESTING BEACHES AND IMPLEMENT COMMUNITY-BASED CONSERVATION INITIATIVES. WE WERE ALSO INSTRUMENTAL IN THE DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE COUNTRY'S FIRST MARINE PROTECTED AREA. WE PUBLISHED 5 PEER-REVIEWED SCIENTIFIC MANUSCRIPTS ON A VARIETY OF TOPICS, RANGING FROM CONGO'S POPULATION TRENDS, TO OLIVE RIDLEY GLOBAL PHYLOGEOGRAPHY, TO GABON'S GROUND-BREAKING MARINE POLICIES.

  Expenses $360,422

• THE AFRICAN CHELONIAN INSTITUTE LED SURVEYS TO DOCUMENT SEA TURTLE POACHING AND BYCATCH IN MBODIENE AND JOAL, SENEGAL IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE JOAL-FADIOUTH MARINE PROTECTED AREA. A NEW PROJECT TO DOCUMENT A RARE FRESHWATER TURTLE SPECIES BEGAN IN SOUTHEASTERN SENEGAL AND INCLUDED INTERVIEWS AND FIELD SURVEYS. ACI HELD THE FIRST NATIONAL SEA TURTLE AWARENESS DAYS FOR SENEGAL; A FIVE-DAY EVENT INCLUDING PRESENTATIONS AND EDUCATIONAL DISPLAYS, A SKIT AND BEACH CLEAN UPS. IT WAS ATTENDED BY 1500 STUDENTS PLUS OTHER COMMUNITY MEMBERS IN JOAL. SEA TURTLE NESTS IN NGAZOBIL WERE MONITORED; 25 NESTS WERE DOCUMENTED. WORK BEGAN FOR THE FOREST TORTOISE REINTRODUCTION PROJECT IN COTE D'IVOIRE WITH BUILDING AN ENCLOSURE AND INTRODUCING 21 CONFISCATED TORTOISES INTO IT AT AZAGNY NATIONAL PARK. THE INAUGURAL AFRICAN SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM A REGIONAL CAPACITY BUILDING WORKSHOP FOR AFRICAN TORTOISES AND FRESHWATER TURTLES BIOLOGY & CONSERVATION HAS BEEN ORGANIZED AND 12 TRAINEES FROM 6 WEST AFRICAN COUNTRIES PARTICIPATED. A TEMPORARY TURTLE FACILITY WAS MAINTAINED IN NGAZOBIL AS WELL. ACI STAFF PUBLISHED TWO SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS AND MANY MORE POPULAR MAGAZINE ARTICLES.

  Expenses $84,378

• THE AFRICAN CETACEANS PROGRAM LED PROJECTS IN MADAGASCAR AND SENEGAL. IN SENEGAL, WE CONTINUED A STUDY OF ATLANTIC HUMPBACK DOLPHINS WITH PHOTO IDENTIFICATION SURVEYS THROUGHOUT DELTA SALOUM, DEPLOYMENT/RECOVERY/DOWNLOADING OF FOUR ACOUSTIC RECORDERS, AND TRAINED THREE RESEARCHERS FROM MAURITANIA, NIGERIA AND CAMEROON. ADDITIONALLY, WE CONTINUED A PASSIVE ACOUSTIC MONITORING PROGRAM FOR WHALES OFF DAKAR STARTED IN JUNE 2021 WITH THE RECOVERY/REDEPLOYMENT OF A RECORDING IN JULY 2022. IN MADAGASCAR, EXISTING ACOUSTIC MONITORING RECORDERS AT THREE SITES ALONG THE WEST COAST INCLUDING NOSY BE, MAHAJANGA AND TOLIARA WERE RECOVERED AND REDEPLOYED, AND A DEPLOYMENBT WAS CONDUCTED AT A NEW SITE IN THE SOUTHEAST, OFF FORT DAUPHIN. IN JUNE 2022, WE CONDUCTED OFFSHORE SURVEYS FOR BLUE WHALES IN THE WATERS OFF NOSY BE WHERE ACOUSTIC MONITORING HAS DETECTED MULTIPLE POPULATIONS. THE PI PUBLISHED 5 BOOK CHAPTERS, 2 PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS, AND 2 SCIENTIFIC REPORTS (IWC).

  Expenses $92,644

• THE SENEGAL STRANDING NETWORK CONDUCTED THREE COASTAL STRANDING SURVEYS, AS WELL AS RESPONDING TO CARCASSES OUTSIDE OF SURVEYS. WE DOCUMENTED 49 STRANDED CETACEANS AND 61 STRANDED SEA TURTLES (ALL WERE SAMPLED FOR GENETICS, TAXONOMY AND OTHER DATA COLLECTION). WE PARTNERED WITH COLLEAGUES FROM THE SMITHSONIAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY FOR CETACEAN TAXONOMY AND GENETICS STUDIES. WE ALSO ANALYZED STRANDING DATA COLLECTED SINCE 2014 TO BEGIN WRITING A MANUSCRIPT FOR SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATION.

  Expenses $3,672

As filed on the 2022 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2022

Filed

31 October 2023

IRS schema version

2022v5.0

Source object

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