Save Wildlife Conservation Fund
| SAVE Wildlife Conservation Fund (SAVE) |
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| Legal form: | Non-profit foundation |
| Purpose: | Sustainable promotion of nature and species protection |
| Chair: | Lars Gorschlueter |
| Consist: | since December 17, 2010 |
| Seat: | Wuelfrath |
| Website: | www.save-wildlife.org |
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Save Wildlife Conservation Fund (SAVE for short) is a non-profit foundation based in Wülfrath , North Rhine-Westphalia . The foundation was established in December 2010 by the entrepreneur Lars Gorschlüter . SAVE is committed to nature and species protection and is committed to the preservation of the natural habitats of wild animals. The Save team consists of national and international scientists, educators and other people interested in nature and animal protection. Important focal points of the foundation's work are the implementation of protection projects for endangered animal species in Africa, especially in Botswana and Cameroon, as well as environmental education and educational support for disadvantaged children and students in the respective project areas.
Self-image
SAVE sees humans as the main cause of habitat destruction and the associated global extinction of species. The aim of the SAVE Wildlife Conservation Fund is to counteract this development through specific projects and to preserve the biodiversity of the earth. An essential idea of the foundation is to improve the chances of the people in the respective project countries through social, charitable projects and to give them their own income opportunities through sustainable use of natural resources. The principle of work in the African project countries is therefore to involve the local population. Through targeted educational work, they should be made aware of and trained in nature conservation issues so that they can participate in the growth market of sustainable safari tourism.
Working method
SAVE initiates and finances its own research and protection projects that correspond to the foundation's understanding. In addition, SAVE also supports existing projects and campaigns by other organizations and associations that pursue the same goals. SAVE also seeks contact with political decision-makers. SAVE informs the public about grievances through campaigns and actions.
financing
The foundation is financed through monetary and material donations, membership fees, endowments and the granting of patronage for individual projects.
Topics and projects
SAVE African Animals
The protection of African wild animals, especially the large predators , is the main focus of SAVE's work. In Botswana , SAVE supports research projects to protect lions and African wild dogs . The top priority is the development of solution models for the conflict between farmers and predators. Targeted monitoring, educational work by farmers, resettlement campaigns for suspicious animals and cooperation with the Botswana national park authority are intended to protect the animal populations and enable peaceful coexistence between humans and animals. Other African research projects by SAVE deal, among other things, with the migration behavior of zebras and the benefits and risks of wild fences in Botswana. Another research project is dedicated to the last spotted hyenas in the Congo Basin.
SAVE the Oceans
With awareness-raising campaigns, public relations and targeted actions, SAVE is committed to protecting the seas and their inhabitants. SAVE is committed to combating overfishing of the seas and calls for a more sustainable fisheries policy. Special efforts are made to protect sharks and the endangered bluefin tuna . SAVE campaigns against whaling and driven hunts for dolphins . The foundation also calls for an end to the keeping of dolphins in captivity.
SAVE the Forests
The earth's tropical rainforests are home to countless, sometimes unique, animal and plant species. Nevertheless, the destruction of the rainforest by humans is taking on ever greater proportions. The African rainforests on the Gulf of Guinea, one of the few remaining biodiversity hotspots in the world, are also threatened by human influence. An American investor is currently planning to clear an approximately 70,000 hectare forest area in order to create a palm oil plantation there. SAVE is actively committed to the preservation of this rainforest in particular. SAVE conducts public relations work, collects signatures against deforestation, educates consumers, seeks contact with responsible politicians and works with the indigenous population.
SAVE the future
SAVE is convinced that the extinction of African wild animals, especially the large predators , and the destruction of their habitats can only be stopped by peaceful coexistence between humans and animals. Therefore, the children and young people in the project areas should get to know and protect their environment in special support and education projects. This should enable them to work later in the environmental and tourism sector in their home region. They should be shown opportunities and perspectives on how they can live in peaceful coexistence with and for their environment in the future. To this end, SAVE supports and plans so-called child protection centers around the national parks. The child protection center Bana Ba Ditlou in Kasane in northern Botswana is the first center that has already been implemented and currently looks after around 120 children. Further centers are being planned (as of March 2012). In the children's centers, the otherwise mostly hopeless, often sick or orphaned children and young people find not only an educational offer, but also a place of refuge and community. You will receive pedagogical and medical care. You will receive regular meals and can take part in creative and sporting activities.
SAVE European Wildlife
SAVE sees it as its task to support the native wild animals, especially the small and large predators, and to encourage their reintroduction. One focus of SAVE's work in this area is the support of a regional project for the return of the eagle owl, which has settled in the Mettmann district and the urban areas of Wuppertal, Solingen and Remscheid. In addition, a project to protect wolves in Poland is supported. With public relations, financial support for basic research and specific measures, SAVE wants to contribute to the preservation and protection of animals.
Awards
In September 2011, the founder of the foundation, Lars Gorschlüter, was awarded 2nd place in the German Animal Welfare Prize by the German Animal Welfare Association and Funk Uhr magazine .
Web links
- Official website of the foundation
- Freedom for Animals magazine: Successful reintroduction project in Botswana
- Taeglich.ME: Tons of hay brought to the waterhole as feed (December 18, 2019)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lars Gorschlüter : SAVE Wildlife Conservation Fund - newly established foundation with large projects for nature and species protection. In: news aktuell press portal. January 4, 2011, accessed July 5, 2012.
- ↑ a b Round of experts in the German Bundestag on the destruction of rainforests in Cameroon. pr-gateway.de, November 9, 2012, accessed on December 13, 2012.
- ↑ SAVE Wildlife Conservation Fund: No more space for wild animals? ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Pressekat.de - The portal for the press. April 17, 2012, Retrieved July 5, 2012.
- ↑ SAVE Wildlife Conservation Fund: The Myth of the “Healthy Fish”. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: globalo magazine for a sustainable future. May 22, 2012. Retrieved July 5, 2012.
- ↑ After protests: Edeka stops marketing of tuna. In: Hamburger Abendblatt online. April 23, 2012. Retrieved July 5, 2012.
- ^ Dagny Lüdemann, Franziska Draeger: Researchers fight against palm oil plantation. In: time online . March 26, 2012, Retrieved July 5, 2012.
- ↑ SAVE Wildlife Conservation Fund: Cameroon: Battle for Biological Treasury. In: globalo magazine for a sustainable future. July 1, 2012, accessed July 5, 2012.
- ↑ website of Bana Ba Ditlou. Retrieved July 5, 2012.
- ↑ German Animal Welfare Prize , press report , [1]
