The Tunisian Association for Wildlife (ATVS)

About us

The Tunisian Association for Wildlife (ATVS) is a non-governmental and non-profit organization, that aims to study and promote biodiversity on a national and international scale through an ecosystemic approach for conservation, awareness-raising purposes, and sustainable development. In order to concretize this vision, the association has defined the following 3 objectives:

The contribution to the establishment of a qualitative and quantitative inventory of national and international biodiversity.

Valorization and biodiversity conservation through an ecosystemic approach.

Raising awareness of the public on the importance of biodiversity.

ATVS’s team includes a 7-year expertise in the Mediterranean conservation and arid ecosystems, a 10-year expertise in entomological taxonomy coupled with the largest private collection of insects in Tunisia comprising more than 15,000 specimens but also young multidisciplinary researchers: Botany, Macroalgae, Reptiles, Mammals, Arachnids, Heritage and Socio-economics.