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· · Naturefund project info
Naturefund, together with HGON Main-Kinzig purchased a 7.890 square metre piece of land where beavers live. The beaver was once extinct in Hesse. Thanks to a resettlement of 18 beavers 25 years ago… Read more
· · Naturefund project detail
In 1987 and 1988 a trial resettlement was started. Eighteen beavers from the river Elbe were successfully introduced to the Sinn and Jossa rivers in Upper Hesse Read more
· · Naturefund project detail
Small lower mountain streams often still flow very fast. As a result they have a characteristic water surface structure with many stones and gravel Read more
· · Naturefund project detail

When beavers hold back the flow of natural water with their dams they often flood surrounding grasslands and fields. A wet fallow appears which not only provides food for the beaver but also habitats…

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· · Naturefund
Naturefund is working together with the Hessische Gesellschaft für Ornithologie Main-Kinzig to buy up 8.000 m2 of the land where the beavers have successfully spread out Read more
· · Naturefund Press Release
60,000 hectares of rainforest in Cameroon are to be cleared for a palm oil plantation. Other African countries have already given their rainfor Read more
· · Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
The assessment of climate change mitigation cost is going to be improved. Teams of researchers from twelve countries Read more
· · Naturefund Press Release

After two years of negotiations and together with the Bolivian nature conservation organisation Asociación Armonia, Naturefund has finally been able to save 120,000 square metres in the highlands of…

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· · Naturefund Press Release

The Naturefund Forest Network has announced that support for forest conservation projects in South West Madagascar will continue in 2011. Naturefund considers the project work done in 2010 to have…

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· · Jonas Viering, PIK-Potsdam

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…

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