" Biodiversité au Katanga " (or BAK) or Biodiversity in Katanga is a Non-Government Organization (NGO) with Congolese rights whose aim is to preserve the natural heritage of Katanga.
Our organization is convinced that conservation cannot be separate from development. We therefore conceive all our projects with respect to the improvement of rural and urban populations.
We do not focus solely on the protected areas: our aim is to preserve the fauna and the flora of the whole province.
We are convinced that hunting and fishing are not necessarily incompatible with nature conservation as long as the fauna stock is managed in a coherent way. 

In our site headings "news " and "archives " you will find the reports of our recent and/or past activities.

We hope that our database on the vertebrates of Katanga will be a useful tool for scientists as well as for naturalists and hobbyist. Renowned international institutions assist us in our permanent effort to improve it and keep it up to date.

Our organization welcomes everyone who is willing to invest in promoting and realizing our aims.

Our statutes provide for different member categories.

• Effective members: can take part in our general meetings and have the right to vote (contribution: $250 per year). The rank of effective member can only be conferred by decision of the General Meeting of the Board.
• Affiliated members: will be kept informed of our activities (contribution: $100 per year)
• Sympathizing members are the people who make a punctual donation to our association. They will be sympathizing members for a period of one year, starting from the day they make their donation. They will be kept informed of our activities.
• Honorary members: every year, the general meeting proposes the title of honorary member to a list of personalities. The consent of the chosen person confirms her/his honorary member status.

We ask anyone who is willing to become affiliated member of our association to fill the membership's form
Should this procedure not be followed, all payments on any of BAK ASBL's financial accounts would be considered a donation.

Actual composition of the board of directors:

Honorary members (alphabetical order):

• Guido GRYSEELS, Director of the « Musée royal de l’Afrique Centrale (MRAC) » Royal Museum of Central Africa in Tervuren, Belgium
• Jean-pierre d’HUART, Conservation Consultancy Services SPRL           
• José KALPERS, African Parks Foundation
• Jean-Claude MUYAMBO KYASSA, Congolese Minister of Humanitarian Affaires.
• Lesley O’DONNELL, Director EU Office IFAW (International Fund for Animal Welfare)
• Jo THOMPSON, Director  Lukuru Wildlife Research Project
• Jackie VAN GOETHEM, Head of the Invertebrates Department at the "Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique" Belgium Royal Institute of Natural Sciences
  
• Jacques VERSCHUREN, former Managing Director of the "Institut Zaïrois de la Conservation de la Nature" Zairians Institute for the Conservation of Nature
  

For the year 2008, the Ordinary General Assembly granted the title of Honorary Member:

• son Excellence le Ministre de l'Environnement, Conservation de la Nature et Tourisme de la République Démocratique du Congo : Monsieur José Endundo
• son Excellence le Gouverneur du Katanga: Monsieur Moïse Katumbi Chapwe
• son Excellence la Ministre provinciale des Sports, Loisirs, Environnement et Tourisme : Madame Thérèse Lukenge Kapwibwe Mwenze
• Monsieur le Consul Général de Belgique  : Monsieur Guy Sevrin 
• Monsieur le Professeur Pierre Meerts de l'Université Libre de Bruxelles