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Floodplain in a metropolis Hesse

Size: 297 square metres
Location: Frankfurt-Sossenheim, Germany
Feature: Small floodplain in a big town
Project saved: November 2011
Partner: Hessische Gesellschaft für Ornithologie und Naturschutz

Protection of the Hehnes Meadow Germany, Hesse

Size: 12,566 square metres
Location: South Hesse, close to Darmstadt
Feature: The Hehnes Meadows was originally a vast wet meadow.
Project saved: August 2011
Partner: NABU Dieburg

Second Lapwing wet meadow in Hesse Germany, Hesse

Size: 5,662 square metres
Location: Main-Kinzig area, in the middle of the flood plains of the Kinzig river
Feature: Meadow landscape provide optimal living conditions for the Lapwing.
Project saved: February 2011
Partner: HGON

Forest protection in Nicaragua

Size: Protection of 140, 000 m² tropical dry forest
Location: In the canyon of Rio Grande de Carazo in the south-west
Feature: The canyon provides optimal living conditions for the Jaguarundi.
Project saved: Start 2010
Partner: ADECA

Lapwing wet meadow in Hesse

Size: 9,770 square metres
Location: Main-Kinzig area, in the middle of the flood plains of the Kinzig river
Feature: Meadow landscape provide optimal living conditions for the Lapwing
Project saved: May 2010
Partner: HGON

Land for the Beaver in Hesse

Size: 3,654 square metres
Location: in Sinntal, east Hesse
Feature: Three to four beavers are converting the landscape into a wetland
Project saved: February 2010
Partner: GNA, Association for Nature Conservation and Wetlands

Hunting Ground for Owls in Hesse

Size: 7,640 square metres
Location: near Limburg
Feature: An Owl pair breeds closeby and regularly hunts here
Project saved: December 2009
Partner: Hessian Society for Ornithology and Nature Protection

Forest Protection in Bolivia

Size: Protection and reforestation of 120.000 m² Temperate Forest
Location: The Bolivian highlands
Feature: The endangered Red-fronted Macaw breeds here.
Project saved: Start 2010
Partner: Asociación Armonia

Meadow orchard in Hartheim, Frankfurt

Size: 3,497 square metres
Location: Frankfurt
Feature: The rare Little Owl breeds here
Project saved: June 2008
Partner: Hessian Society for Ornithology and Nature Protection

Fenland in Brandenburg

Size: 18,860 square metres
Location: Brandenburg, 65 km northeast of Berlin
Feature: Rare fen with beech groves and wetlands
Project saved: July 2007
Partner: DieTierPaten®

Oakforest in Hesse

Size: 185 square metres
Location: North of Frankfurt am Main
Feature: On the border of the Enkheimer Ried nature reserve
Project saved: December 2006
Partner: Hessian Society for Ornithology and Nature Protection

Wetland area in the Eifel mountains

Size: 2,617 square metres
Location: The Sahrbach valley in the Eifel mountains, Rhineland-Palatinate
Feature: The endangered Agile Frog now has a protected habitat
Project saved: November 2006
Partner: BUND of Rhineland-Palatinate

Beechforest in Hesse

Size: 55,839 square metres
Location: In the southern Vogelsberg mountains
Feature: Rare bat species nesting in ancient trees
Project saved: July 2006
Partner: NABU Steinau

Marshland in North Hesse

Size: 92,004 square metres
Location: North Hesse, on the Thuringian border
Feature: A large colony of Grey Herons nests here
Project saved: July 2005
Partner: NABU Wildeck-Obersuhl