Conservation and restoration

Our aim is to help protect nature and the environment from harmful human influences or restore them as best we can. We feel obliged to do this not only for the present generation.

Therefore, we support projects for the preservation of biodiversity and the sustainable use of nature and the environment:

  • organisations that work to protect wildlife and their habitats around the world and encourage the public, politicians and companies to treat nature responsibly, if necessary by improving laws and effective protection measures

  • projects that raise public awareness for nature conservation and enable in particular children and young people to experience the many facets of nature, so that they learn to appreciate nature's value at an early age

  • organisations that ensure that environmental problems are uncovered and that measures are taken against them

  • organisations that are committed to preserving the natural basis of life for humans, animals and plants, and are thus also dedicated to the protection of species and biotopes

  • types of agriculture which preserve the diversity of animal and plant species and protect soils and water

  • sustainable (meat-free) dietary concepts which conserve resources

  • education and research committed to the overall goal of a future in which ecology, economy and social responsibility are one, and also develops possible solutions to the imminent questions about a way of life and an economy fit for the future

  • institutions of higher education that offer sustainable degree courses or are willing to reform their existing ones

  • moorland restoration projects as well as nature-oriented, ecological and holistic forms of forest management

  • environmental initiatives aimed primarily at children and young people, to teach them how to conserve nature and treat it with respect

See in Schottland

Conservation is humanity caring for the future.

Nancy Newhall

Funded projects


Children harvest vegetables
Picture: Nadine Stenzel
Ongoing funding

Acker e. V.

#Measures to preserve environment and nature · #Ecological farming · +2 more

People demonstrate with signs
Picture: Timo Stammberger
Funding ended

Albert Schweitzer Foundation

#Measures for climate adaptation · #Measures to preserve environment and nature · +5 more

An orangutan climbs in a tree
Funding ended

BOS-Deutschland e. V. (Borneo Orangutan Survival)

#Measures for climate adaptation · #Measures to preserve environment and nature · +2 more

Worms in the soil
Picture: Pexels
Ongoing funding

Bioland Stiftung

#Measures to preserve environment and nature · #Education, science and research · +2 more

Bisons in the wild
Picture: Carpathia
Ongoing funding

CARPATHIA European Wilderness Reserve

#Education, science and research · #Measures to preserve environment and nature · +2 more

Farmers watering a field
Funding ended

Client Earth

#Measures for climate adaptation · #Measures to preserve environment and nature · +1 more

A beach section on a river
Picture: Mathijs Deerenberg
Ongoing funding

David Suzuki Foundation

#Measures for climate adaptation · #Measures to preserve environment and nature · +1 more

Children wave at the camera
Funding ended

Förderverein Schul-Umwelt-Zentrum Mitte e.V.

#Measures to preserve environment and nature · #Plant-based diet · +1 more

Students sitting together
Ongoing funding

Deutschlandstipendium for students at HNEE

#Measures to preserve environment and nature · #Education, science and research

Students throw their hats
Funding ended

Deutschlandstipendium of the University of Bonn

#Measures to preserve environment and nature · #Education, science and research

Two people are happy about their harvest
Picture: Förderkreis
Ongoing funding

Förderkreis Biozyklisch-Veganer Anbau e.V.

#Measures for climate adaptation · #Measures to preserve environment and nature · +4 more

A man conducts research
Project completed

Research project at the University of Bonn

#Measures for climate adaptation · #Measures to preserve environment and nature · +1 more

A woman looks through a microscope
Picture: blackrabbit images
Ongoing funding

Future Science

#Measures to preserve environment and nature · #Ecological farming · +2 more

Three horses
Funding ended

Heinz Sielmann Foundation

#Measures for climate adaptation · #Measures to preserve environment and nature · +2 more

A vibrant campus
Ongoing funding

Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development (HNEE)

#Measures for climate adaptation · #Education, science and research · +1 more

Triesdorf
Ongoing funding

University of applied sciences Weihenstephan-Triesdorf

#Renewable energies · #Measures to preserve environment and nature · +1 more

Jane Goodall with binoculars
Picture: Jane Goodall Institute, by Jane Goodall
Funding ended

Jane Goodall Institute Germany

#Measures to preserve environment and nature · #Education, science and research · +1 more

3 people in the greenhouse
Ongoing funding

Kulturpflanzen­entwicklung Obergrashof e.V.

#Measures to preserve environment and nature · #Ecological farming · +2 more

Group on meadow
Picture: Lucas Buchholz, Lebendige Zukunft e.V.
Funding ended

Lebendige Zukunft e.V.

#Measures for climate adaptation · #Measures to preserve environment and nature

The first two endowed professors of the Social-Ecological Forest Management degree program have started work (from left to right): Prof. Dr. Daniel Johnson (Chair of Value-Based Forest Economics), Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Pierre Ibisch (Chair of Social Ecology of Forest Ecosystems and founding program director)
Funding ended

New degree program: Socio-ecological forest management, B.Sc.

#Measures for climate adaptation · #Measures to preserve environment and nature · +1 more

Forest
Ongoing funding

Part of Nature

#Measures for climate adaptation · #Measures to preserve environment and nature · +2 more

Felix Finkbeiner, Founder of Plant-for-the-Planet
Funding ended

Plant-for-the-Planet Foundation

#Measures to preserve environment and nature

Sea turtle in the water
Picture: Pexels / Pixabay
Funding ended

Pro Wildlife e.V.

#Measures to preserve environment and nature · #Animal welfare, animal ethics and animal rights

Students on SUPs on the water
Ongoing funding

Pure Water for Generations e.V.

#Education, science and research · #Measures to preserve environment and nature

Main building of the University of Bonn
Funding ended

University of Bonn

#Measures to preserve environment and nature · #Education, science and research

Hans-Günther Kaufmann is standing in a field, leaning on a stick
Picture: Hans-Günther Kaufmann
Funding ended

Schweisfurth Foundation

#Measures to preserve environment and nature · #Ecological farming · +1 more

People sitting together
Funding ended

Stiftung Ökologie & Landbau

#Measures to preserve environment and nature · #Ecological farming · +1 more

Klaus Milke is on the podium
Funding ended

Stiftung Zukunftsfähigkeit

#Measures for climate adaptation · #Measures to preserve environment and nature · +2 more

Forest in galicia
Project completed

Student research project in Galicia

#Measures for climate adaptation · #Education, science and research · +1 more

A group of educational travelers
Project completed

Study trip agroforestry

#Measures for climate adaptation · #Measures to preserve environment and nature · +1 more

A lake in the moor
Picture: L. Sveistyte
Ongoing funding

Succow Foundation

#Measures for climate adaptation · #Measures to preserve environment and nature

A man and a goat
Funding ended

TransFARMation

#Education, science and research · #Measures to preserve environment and nature · +3 more

Hands holding a green plant on a black pot
Ongoing funding

Transfarmation Austria

#Education, science and research · #Measures to preserve environment and nature · +4 more

Some people walk on a path
Picture: Lars Richter
Funding ended

Umweltstiftung Greenpeace

#Education, science and research · #Measures to preserve environment and nature · +1 more

urgewald team
Funding ended

urgewald

#Measures to preserve environment and nature · #Education, science and research

Ein Infoposter in einem Supermarkt
Funding ended

Veganuary

#Measures for climate adaptation · #Plant-based diet · +2 more

Young people on the project
Project paused

ZukunftsAtelier

#Education, science and research · #Measures to preserve environment and nature