FZS Conservation Programme

Country

Project/Programme

• Belarus
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    Polesia - Europe's largest wilderness area
    Wetland protection in the south of Belarus and in the north of Ukraine
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    Preserving the Belovezhskaya Pushcha Forest
    The expansive Bialowieza forest complex is one of the last great virgin forests in Europe. Since 2012 we have been supporting the conservation work of the National Park administration on the Belarus side of the forest.
• Brazil
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    Protection and Management of Cantão Ecosystem
    Cantão State Park and its surrounding protected areas are one of the richest and most important freshwater ecosystems in the world which are home to many rare animals, such as the giant otter or black caiman.
• Colombia
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    Protection of Chiribiquete National Park and its Greater Landscape
    Protection of the unique Greater Chiribiquete Landscape and the Chiribiquete National Park in the heart of the Colombian Amazon.
• DR Congo
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    Virunga Conservation Programme
    Providing assistance for Africa's oldest National Park which harbours mountain gorillas and chimpanzee.
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    Protection of the Lomami National Park
    Protection of the flora and fauna of the Lomami ecosystem and establishment of a functioning national park administration together with local partners.
• Ethiopia
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    Bale Mountains Conservation Project
    From the high plateau down to the rainforest: Protecting the teeming diversity of the Bale Mountains National Park and empowering local communities.
• Germany
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    Wilderness Areas in Brandenburg
    The tanks left their tracks, but nature is taking back its territory - and the Brandenburg Wilderness Foundation (SNLB) is helping it do so. We, too, are offering our support.
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    Wilderness in Germany
    Wilderness areas, most of which are to be found within national parks and in "national natural heritage" regions, provide the backdrop for a dynamic landscape which has almost been squeezed out of existence in densely populated Germany.
• Guyana
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    Kanuku Mountains Project
    The Kanuku Mountains are one of the most ecologically diverse areas in Guyana. We support the government in the establishment and management of the new protected area.
• Kazakhstan
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    Saiga and Steppe Protection in Kazakhstan
    Temperate grasslands represent the least protected ecosystem in the world by far. Much of the remaining natural steppe in Eurasia is in Kazakhstan. It is estimated that roughly one million saiga were roaming Kazakhstan's grasslands in the 1970s.
• Peru
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    Andes to Amazon Conservation Programme
    FZS operates within nine national protected areas, helping to conserve more than 8 million hectares of the mega-diverse east slope of the Andes and the Amazonian lowlands.
• Romania
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    Wilderness conservation in the Romanian Carpathians
    Europe's most important areas of virgin forest lie in the forested part of the Carpathians, especially in the Ukraine, Slovakia and in Romania.
• Slovakia
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    Wolf Mountains in the Carpathians
    Securing at least 100.000 hectares of wild areas in the Eastern Carpathians.
• Sumatra (Indonesia)
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    Bukit Tigapuluh Landscape Conservation Programme
    Conserving the rainforest environment for the protection of Sumatran wildlife.
• Tanzania
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    Serengeti Conservation Project
    We provide critical support and know-how for resource protection, monitoring, and park management.
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    Serengeti Ecosystem Management
    Empowering local communities in the Serengeti ecosystem to engage in conservation while promoting conservation-compatible livelihoods
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    Selous Conservation Project
    We are supporting the protection of one of the largest remaining wilderness areas and a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Africa.
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    Mahale Conservation Project
    Preserving tropical rainforest biodiversity and strengthening environmental security for local communities
• Ukraine
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    Protecting virgin forest in the Ukrainian Carpathians
    The last intact virgin forest in the temperate latitudes of Europe is to be found in the Carpathians. Trees live to be a hundred years old in these forests, providing an important habitat for numerous organisms such as mushrooms, moss, lichen, insects, rare birds.
• Vietnam
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    Forest conservation in the central highlands of Vietnam
    Conservation of Kon Ka Kinh National Park
• Zambia
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    Nsumbu Tanganyika Conservation Project
    Protecting the realm of the swimming elephants
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    North Luangwa Conservation Programme
    Protecting the North Luangwa Valley ecosystem - one of Africa's last intact wilderness areas.
• Zimbabwe
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    Gonarezhou Conservation Trust
    Our conservation partnership with the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority protects ‘the place of elephants’.