Projects land acquisitions | Foundation Pro Biodiversity

The sustainable, unrestricted and positive development of the countryside (biotopes) for the benefit of endangered wild animal species and their natural habitats can only be achieved by land ownership.

This also applies to our property purchases, e.g. in nature conservation areas (NSG) and in nature parks, where the official conservation area ordinances expressly permit the continuing use of the countryside in the form of conventional agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting.

Our foundation's development goals on those parts of nature reserves of land that we own are defined more narrowly and strictly and only allow extensive land use, which must serve the goals of the unrestricted conservation of biotope and species.

Land lease as a basis for the project is not an option since the legally required time limit for lease contracts cannot ensure the permanent conservation of nature and species and the sustainable ecological development of the habitats.

Land acquisition in Germany

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Bavaria Murnauer Moos Nature Reserve
Pre-Alpine lowland fen complex Ohlstadt near Murnau
Pre-alpine mixed mountain woodland Wiesmahd near Bad Kohlgrub
Calcareous grassland

Brandenburg Kleiner Gollinsee
Inland lake, wet meadows Finowtal Nature Reserve
River flood plain, wet meadows, inland lake Torfstich Klosterfelde Nature Reserve
Lowland fen complex, moor lake Wilder Berg bei Seelow Nature Reserve
Calcareous grassland Obersdorfer Vorder- & Hintersee
Species-rich wetland complex

Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Island of Hiddensee
Coastal dune heath Cossensee Nature Reserve
Inland lake, alluvial forest areas, wet meadows Jülchendorfer Trockenhänge Nature Reserve
Nutrient-poor calcareous grassland

North Rhine-Westphalia Gehrden
Meadow-stream valley Paderborner Land
Wild orchard

Saxony Hirschgrund near Oberlungwitz
Meadow-stream valley, wet meadows, floodplain woodland, sloping grassland, mixed woodland

Saxony-Anhalt Drömling
Lowland fen, wet meadows Seeländereien bei Frose
Wetland complex

Thuringia Altenburger Land
Heat-favoured bedstraw-oak-hornbeam forest Henfstädt
Juniper - dry grassland Nordhausen
Gypsum karst - dry grassland Weidatal
River flood plain, wet meadows, hillside woodland

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Land acquisition in Southern Europe

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Sicily Migratory bird sanctuary Pantani Cuba and Longarini
Freshwater lagoons, wet meadows, wild orchards, macchia

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Spring at our ‘Schimmel’s Ponds’ – how a former fish farm is being transformed into an increasingly biodiverse habitat …

With the start of the vegetation growth period, an impressive transformation is taking place at Schimmel's ponds in the Limbach pond area near Limbach-Oberfrohna, in the district of Zwickau: fresh greenery on the dykes and along the pond edges, and vibrant waters teeming with wildlife are the first results of our extensive landscape restoration work to create a valuable, species-rich wetland habitat ...... more information

Spring from a bird’s-eye view: Our Schimmel’s ponds – a new, diverse habitat for numerous species © M. Pfeifer

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On the Baltic Sea island of Hiddensee, a valuable area of salt marsh was in danger of being lost to speculative development – a vital habitat urgently needed by the endangered Northern Lapwing, Common Redshank and other species.

Our second land purchase on Hiddensee will secure these salt marshes for the long term and restore habitat for the birds that live there – please support us in this endeavour... to the project

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Land acquisition in Germany

Land acquisition in Southern Europe

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Spring at our ‘Schimmel’s Ponds’ – how a former fish farm is being transformed into an increasingly biodiverse habitat …

On the Baltic Sea island of Hiddensee, a valuable area of salt marsh was in danger of being lost to speculative development – a vital habitat urgently needed by the endangered Northern Lapwing, Common Redshank and other species.