NETC is an organization devoted to conserving the world’s natural resources and sustaining plant diversity. We strive to illustrate how individual acts of conservation can make global impact. We do this by research, education and display.
Research: NETC has a well-established program for botanical exploration in montane forests of Indonesia. Our expeditions have yielded new insight into species diversity and explored regions of the tropics never explored by botanists before.
Education: At our Education Center in Bennington Vermont our classes and school programs explore the plant world and teach sustainability. We bridge the connection between plants and culture.
Display: Our future conservatory will house tropical plants indoors and be surrounded by native plants outdoors, showing the global to local connection of conservation. Our botanical display will be the first of its kind in New England and will create a destination point for the local community, tourists and researchers. Our current Reserve shows the diversity of plant life from meadows, to wetlands to forests.
Why Tropical? 
Biodiversity is a term that is used to describe the number of plant and animal species living in the same ecosystem. An area that is rich in biodiversity is also rich in genetics, nutrient recycling, and clean water supply. Biodiversity is the ultimate measure of sustainability and the best way to measure our environmental health. It is the combination of many species that makes our world functional and able to prevent or recover from disaster.
The impacts of deforestation of the tropics impacts the entire World.
- Deforestation is responsible for about 20% of the worlds carbon emission, making it a leading factor in climate change.
- Half of the worlds biological species are found in the tropics. A large proportion of these species have never been identified or researched. These species are becoming extinct at an alarming rate, without the opportunity for us to know what they could provide us in terms of medicine, food and fiber.
How We Operate
We are a community-based non-profit organization governed by a board of directors. NETC relies on the energy of volunteers and charitable contributions to conduct our research, provide educational programs, maintain our plants and build the Home Conservatory.
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