#Measures for climate adaptation#Conservation of nature and environment
About the foundation
The Succow Foundation has been committed to nature, peatland and climate protection since 1999 and is active both nationally and worldwide. Michael Succow founded the non-profit, operational foundation for the protection of nature with the prize money from the Right Livelihood Award.
Today, almost 30 employees of the recognized nature conservation institution at the foundation's headquarters in Greifswald are committed to the protection and sustainable use of our planet's major ecosystems.
Drawing attention to nature, understanding its magnificence, its uniqueness and its vulnerability and raising our awareness of it is an important concern of my foundation. Protecting nature is not a luxury, but one of the most important social benefits for the continued existence of human society. Let's give nature space, let's give it time. Let's practice conservation, stewardship and value preservation - for the sake of our own future.
Why we fund
Protecting peatlands is climate protection.
Peatlands cover only 3% of the world's land area, but their peat - at 500 gigatons - contains twice as much carbon as the entire biomass of all the world's forests. However, peatlands drained for agriculture and peat extraction release disproportionate amounts of greenhouse gases and exacerbate the climate crisis.
Peatlands are also important habitats for endangered species that are adapted to humid conditions. They retain pollutants, regulate local climates and water balances. Drained peatlands can be rewetted and used sustainably with an innovative form of agriculture, paludiculture. This makes peatlands important for climate protection, biodiversity, other ecosystem services and economic development.
The protection and preservation of peatlands is not an end in itself for nature, but serves the basis of human life. For this reason, we support the Succow Foundation, which is particularly committed to peatland protection and rewetting projects.
Peatlands are a focal point of its work due to their climatic explosiveness. The Succow Foundation, together with its partners in the Greifswald Moor Centrum, focuses on rewetting and the use of rewetted moors (paludiculture) in harmony with flora and fauna.
PROJECT DETAILS
What we fund
19 %
Co-financing moorland environmental education for children and young people
April 1, 2025: Start of wet meadow culture in the Sernitz peat meadows
The symbolic ground-breaking ceremony on April 1, 2025 marked the start of the establishment of a wet meadow paludiculture as part of the toMOORow initiative - wet moors for a sustainable future. The aim of the project is to preserve moorland areas as natural carbon reservoirs, promote biodiversity and enable sustainable land use.
