NABU Foundation for National Natural Heritage
| NABU Foundation for National Natural Heritage | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Non-profit foundation under civil law |
| founding | 2002 |
| Seat | Berlin |
| motto | We save paradises! |
| purpose | Nature and species protection |
| Chair | Christian Unselt |
| sales | 6,518,303 euros (2018) |
| Employees | 25th |
| Website | www.naturerbe.de |
The NABU-Stiftung Nationales Naturerbe is an independent, legally responsible foundation based in Berlin, which was founded in 2002 by the Naturschutzbund Deutschland (NABU). The purpose of the NABU Foundation is the permanent protection of nature conservation areas in Germany. The foundation is a member of the Transparent Civil Society Initiative and is an active member of the National Natural Heritage Network.
aims
- Promotion of nature conservation and landscape management within the meaning of the Federal Nature Conservation Act
- Preservation, creation and improvement of the basis of life in a species-rich flora and fauna
- Implementation of species protection measures for endangered species
The NABU Foundation pursues exclusively charitable purposes and is recognized by the tax office as a non-profit foundation.
Foundation work and projects
The NABU Foundation acquires nationally significant nature conservation areas in Germany in order to preserve them for endangered animal and plant species. For this purpose, she takes care of the professional care, administration and maintenance of nature conservation properties. In addition to the direct acquisition of land, land from federal property as part of the national natural heritage is also transferred free of charge to the NABU Foundation , for example in the Stechlinsee area or the former military training areas Langenhard and Hirschacker and Dossenwald in Baden-Württemberg. According to the foundation's 2018 annual report , it owns 20,233 hectares in over 300 protected areas, mainly in the eastern German states as well as in Lower Saxony, Baden-Württemberg and Saarland. Large foundation areas are, for example, the approximately 2,000 hectares of the Grünhaus natural paradise in a former open- cast lignite mine in the south of Brandenburg, which is becoming wilderness; Other significant foundation areas are the 800 hectare “Naturparadies Wittwesee” in the Stechlin nature reserve in Northern Brandenburg, the 470 hectare reserve on Salziger See in Saxony-Anhalt or the 140 hectare Liebenauer mines near Nienburg in Lower Saxony. At the beginning of October 2016, 111 hectares in the Spreiberg nature reserve , the former military training area Spreiberg near Arnsberg - Müschede in the Sauerland (North Rhine-Westphalia), were transferred to the NABU Foundation . The area transferred to the foundation is still 23 hectares larger than the designated NSG. In September 2017, the foundation in Rhineland-Palatinate was given further areas of former military training areas: 235 hectares of the Koblenz-Schmidtenhöhe on-site training area , 153 hectares near Westerburg and 138 hectares near Saarburg. At the end of 2018, the foundation acquired the Anklamer Stadtbruch , one of the few real wilderness areas in Germany. The Anklamer city break is located in the northeast of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, has an area of approximately 1,500 hectares and is home to many rare species like eagles, otters and moor frog. In 2019, the foundation acquired, among other things, the Westerwald lake district , 233 hectares in size, with seven former fish ponds, today "a home for bird species with the most varied of habitat requirements and an important resting area throughout Europe during bird migration".
Illustrations
The Gülper See - a foundation protection area of 600 hectares and a nationally significant bird resting area
The greenish forest hyacinth is an endangered orchid species in Germany. They still exist in the Lindholz Foundation near Berlin.
Red-backed shrike in the Langenhard nature reserve, a former military site in the Black Forest, owned by the foundation since 2012
With around 2000 hectares one of the foundation's largest protected areas, the former Grünhaus open-cast lignite mine in Lusatia
A new wilderness is to be created in the former Grünhaus opencast mine, wolves have already been documented here
On the Havel, the foundation is involved in one of the largest river renaturation projects in Europe; kilometer-long stone fortifications on the banks have been removed
The Peene - between Kummerower See and Anklam - still has largely natural watercourses. The foundation owns around 1000 hectares in the area
And the cormorant, which was previously endangered, has a chance in the wild Peene Valley, in the protected areas
A species-rich dry grassland, northwest of Weimar, on the southern slope of the Ettersberg, owned by the foundation since 2017.
A wide variety of insects live on the dry grassland of the southern Ettersberg, here a blue one, one of the more sensitive butterflies
In order to protect open or semi-open meadows from encroachment, Taurus cattle are used for grazing on the Schmidtenhöhe near Koblenz
Representatives from the federal and state governments and the chairman of the NABU Foundation C. Unselt (right) sign a contract for the transfer of former military areas to the foundation (2017)
financing
The foundation finances its work, among other things, through income from the foundation's capital, through donations, inheritances, other allowances, grants and through economic income (lease, timber proceeds, compensation and replacement measures). In 2018, the foundation's capital was EUR 12.1 million. The donation income amounted to 2.59 million euros. The use of funds in accordance with the Articles of Association is independently monitored by the state foundation supervision and the annual financial statements are audited by an independent auditor.
Foundation bodies
In addition to the statutory board of directors, there is a further foundation body, a foundation council .
The three-person executive board is made up of members of the Presidium of the Naturschutzbund Deutschland eV (NABU) and is advised and supervised by the foundation council, a body made up of all NABU state chairmen. The current board of directors of the NABU Foundation consists of Christian Unselt as full-time chairman and Petra Wassmann and Carsten Böhm as deputy honorary chairmen.
Support for dependent foundations
As a foundation with legal capacity, the NABU Foundation takes on responsibility for dependent foundations with goals in the field of nature conservation. The NABU Foundation currently acts as the sponsor for 16 trust foundations , for example the “Rainer von Boeckh Foundation for the Green House Natural Paradise”. All dependent trust foundations under the umbrella of the NABU Foundation have total foundation assets of EUR 13.19 million.
Cooperations
The NABU Foundation was able to win cooperation partners for many of its nature conservation projects. For example, the foundation is a partner of the Brandenburg Nature Conservation Fund in the EU projects LIFE Lesser Spotted Eagle, LIFE Kalkmoore in Brandenburg, LIFE Wet Forests. The NABU Foundation works in many foundation areas in close cooperation with the local NABU groups.
Web links
- official website
- Video about the "Rainer von Boeckh Foundation" , which is under the umbrella of "National NABU Foundation Heritage" for the natural paradise green home uses
Individual evidence
- ↑ One of the most fascinating natural paradises in East Germany, the Stechlinsee area, was taken over by the NABU Foundation . Deutschlandfunk, May 6, 2003, accessed on January 29, 2016.
- ↑ Nature conservation shapes Langenhard . Badische Zeitung, January 29, 2012, accessed on February 2, 2016.
- ↑ Sheep instead of tanks in the Schwetzingen Hirschackerwald . Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung, February 3, 2016, accessed February 4, 2016.
- ↑ National Natural Heritage Foundation: 2018 Annual Report , accessed on September 5, 2019.
- ↑ 250 young beeches planted In: der westen.de from November 5, 2016, accessed on November 6, 2016
- ↑ Forest practice: NABU Foundation receives former military areas in Rhineland-Palatinate
- ^ NABU Foundation: Anklamer Stadtbruch, accessed on October 7, 2019
- ↑ NABU Foundation for National Natural Heritage: Annual Report 2019, page 6, accessed on August 30, 2020
- ↑ Annual report 2018 (PDF). NABU Foundation for National Natural Heritage, Annual Report 2018 p. 31, accessed on September 5, 2018.
- ↑ Annual report 2018 (PDF). NABU Foundation for National Natural Heritage, Annual Report 2018 p. 33, accessed on September 5, 2018.
- ↑ A portrait of the Foundation Board . NABU Foundation for National Natural Heritage, accessed April 28, 2020.
- ↑ www.boeckh-stiftung.de . Retrieved February 4, 2016.
- ↑ NABU Foundation for National Natural Heritage: Annual Report 2018 , accessed on April 28, 2020.
- ↑ Secure nature conservation areas together . , NABU Foundation for National Natural Heritage, accessed January 30, 2016.