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17 January 2011, Jonas Viering, PIK-Potsdam
Survey:citizens want Germany to take a lead in climat protection
12/17/2010 - Citizens want the German government to take the lead in international climate protection. Close to 61 percent of the interviewees said so in a representative survey now published by the Federal ... more
11 January 2011, Martina Petru, Ho Avy, Madagaskar
Madagaskar, December 2010
This year’s wet season has started with ample amount of rain already in early December followed by a heavy storm system moving in now - early January. When the rain begins to fall The spiny forest has ... more
06 January 2011, World Agroforestry Centre, Nairobi
2011- The United Nations International Year of Forests
The International Year of Forests is an opportunity to highlight the global importance of agroforestry and the impact that trees on farms can have on livelihoods and the effects of climate change. What ... more
02 December 2010, Naturefund press release
Elavon goes green and supports Naturefund projects
Naturefund is a nature conservation organisation protecting Nature trough donations. With the support of Elavon donations can now also be paid online by credit cards ... more
08 November 2010, IPCC Patrick Eickemeier, TSU, WG III
New socioeconomic scenarios
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is facilitating the further development of socioeconomic scenarios, portraits of possible social and economic futures, by the ... more
08 November 2010, Naturefund
Lapwing Facts and Figures
The meadow or wader bird, the Lapwing, searches for treeless, biodiverse wet meadows with low-land and flood hollows. Its habitat is disappearing in many places and along with it the Lapwing and many other ... more
08 November 2010, Naturefund
Wet Meadows as Habitat
Biodiverse wet meadows are made up of an interplay of small ponds, marshy subsoil and areas of meadow with large and small plants. In earlier times large wild animals did all the mowing and later came scythes ... more
08 November 2010, Naturefund
Flood Hollows and Wells as Habitat
Flooded low-land which is at times marshy or dry, forms an important habitat. If the area is open and not populated by trees, rare meadow birds such as Lapwing, Black-tailed Godwit and Common Snipe will ... more
11 October 2010, Naturefund
Report from Madagascar
In October 2009, Naturefund began a co-operation with Ho Avy, in order to conserve a unique Spiny Thicket forest through a reforestation project in South West Madagascar. Learn more about the current report ... more
29 July 2010, Naturefund Press release
Reforestation on the edge of the African rainforest
With the Forest Network, Naturefund would like to conserve one of the last rainforest areas in Kenya, the Kakamega forest. Together with TREIN, Naturefund will plant a protective ring of trees around the ... more
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