FZS Conservation Programme
Currently FZS supports about 30 conservation programmes and projects in 18 countries.
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Project/Programme
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Belarus
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Polesia - Europe's largest wilderness area
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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.
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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.
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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.
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DR Congo
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Virunga Conservation Programme
Providing assistance for Africa's oldest National Park which harbours mountain gorillas and chimpanzee. -
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.
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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.
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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. -
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Slovakia
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Wolf Mountains in the Carpathians
Securing at least 100.000 hectares of wild areas in the Eastern Carpathians.
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Sumatra (Indonesia)
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Bukit Tigapuluh Landscape Conservation Programme
Conserving the rainforest environment for the protection of Sumatran wildlife.
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Tanzania
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Serengeti Conservation Project
We provide critical support and know-how for resource protection, monitoring, and park management. -
Serengeti Ecosystem Management
Empowering local communities in the Serengeti ecosystem to engage in conservation while promoting conservation-compatible livelihoods -
Selous Conservation Project
We are supporting the protection of one of the largest remaining wilderness areas and a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Africa. -
Mahale Conservation Project
Preserving tropical rainforest biodiversity and strengthening environmental security for local communities
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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.
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Vietnam
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Zambia
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North Luangwa Conservation Programme
Protecting the North Luangwa Valley ecosystem - one of Africa's last intact wilderness areas.
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Zimbabwe
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Gonarezhou Conservation Trust
Our conservation partnership with the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority protects ‘the place of elephants’.
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