Dear Friends,
Another year is drawing to a close. Just as you might too, I am reflecting on these past months. For SAVE Wildlife Conservation Fund, it was an eventful, exciting year. ...

Decision Serves as Role Model for Protecting Wildlife
Botswana’s President Ian Khama took the decisive step of banning trophy hunting. Starting in 2013, the southern African country will no longer issue licenses for hunting wild animals....

The arrest of five activists oft he local NGO „SEFE“
It is presumed that what gave rise to the arrests of Nasako Besingi, the director of SEFE, and his colleagues was the ongoing protest mounted by NGOs against plans of the US-company for erecting a palm oil plantation in the southwest region of Cameroon, for which a total of 70.000 hectares of species-rich rainforest shall be cleared....

The Minister of Forestry and Wildlife, has authorized in a letter addressed to the South West Regional Delegation of MINFOF the deforestation of 2.500 hectares of rainforest. ...

SAVE emphasised adverse consequences oft the oil palm plantation for man and nature
– On November 7th, the Committee on Economic Cooperation and Development of the German Bundestag met to discuss the construction of the plantation of oil palm trees planned by Herakles Farms and Sithe Global Sustainable Oils Cameroon (SG-SOC) in south-western Cameroon, which should entail the deforestation of 70,000 hectares of rainforest to make way for the plantation....

Dirk Niebel will See Area Slated for Clear-Cutting in Palm Oil Plantation Land Grab
On November 6th and 7th, German Development Minister Dirk Niebel will tour land in Cameroon caught in a conflict over an ill-advised U.S. development scheme....

Yaoundé, Cameroon / Wülfrath, Germany - Herakles Farms, a subsidiary of New York investment firm Herakles Capital, withdrew its membership from the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) on August 24, 2012....

The RSPO (Round Table for sustainable palm oil) was soundly criticised this week by the German NGO “SAVE Wildlife Conservation Fund” and the African NGO “Struggle to Economize Future Environment” for its lack of commitment to its own principles and criteria....

LEDs are energy efficient, eco and animal friendly
The old adage still applies: It is always a good idea to save energy. Connectors with switches can be switched off completely. ...

Eco-Friendly Driving
It is common knowledge that the reduction of car use is the most environmentally friendly choice. Nevertheless, many people living in rural areas are likely to commute by car as they have no other option. ...

Excessive cleanliness result in harm to the environment and to our health
Despite environmental labelling of washing agents and detergents, there's no such thing as completely eco-friendly cleaning products. ..

Choose not to eat any fish more often than before
Almost everyone has already heard of the problem of “overfishing“. But what does it mean in concrete terms? Fisheries around the world are at risk of collapse....

SAVE carries out the project Books for Education together with the artist
Matto Barfuss is an artist, positive environmental activist, filmmaker, photographer, visionary, and businessman. He became famous as the “cheetah man”. ...

Recycling which makes sense
The plastic bag takes 1000 years to break down in the environment! However, customers still reach for the plastic bag that is offered free with every purchase they make....

Lion’s bones in the Chinese medicine
It has long been suspected: after the tiger playing an important role as a supplier of traditional Chinese medicine products had come near to eradicating, the next big cat came into sight of African traders: the lion....

Two villages are already cooperating with SAVE
Over recent weeks and months our employees in Botswana have taken the first, crucial steps to launch our current mammoth project: development and children's aid project in Botswana. ...

Lion’s bones in the Chinese medicine
It has long been suspected: after the tiger playing an important role as a supplier of traditional Chinese medicine products had come near to eradicating, the next big cat came into sight of African traders: the lion. Its pulverized bones and the “lion’s wine” derived therefrom are regarded as panaceas. ...

Create wildlife habitat in the garden and on your balcony!
Bees, bumblebees and butterflies can hardly find any food in sterile gardens with exotic cultivated plants. That may be true that these plants are cultivated for their beauty, but they do not produce enough nectar in their calyx to feed the insects. ...

Wildlife encounters and the first big performance
Although most children of our Child Aid centre Bana Ba Ditlou had gone through so many bad experiences during their short lives so far, the last weeks were very exciting for them. ...

SAVE calls for participation!
“One man alone can't change anything anyway!” It was the phrase that employees of the SAVE Wildlife Conservation Fund in Wülfrath couldn't stand to hear anymore. ...

Together with international NGOs against deforestation
For over a year, the people in the Gulf of Guinea have been protesting against the cutting down of 70 thousand hectares of rainforest by the American company Herakles from New York ...

Dr. Bernd Quantius and Beatrix Jacobs
For over 13 years, Dr. Bernd Quantius, the dentist and implant specialist from Moenchengladbach, and his wife have been taking regular trips to Africa. Each of these trips has made them feel more related to the environment, nature and ...

Joint business with palm oil producer FELDA
The palm oil company FELDA has already cleared hundreds of thousands of hectares of rainforest to build oil palm plantations instead. It is a dirty business that involves ...

SAVE researchers collect valuable data on populations of carnivores
SAVE researchers have been searching for traces in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve and the Khutse-Game-Resere in Botswana for six days and seven nights. ...

Whalers against whale conservationist at the Marine Mammal Conference in the Faroe Islands
“Hunting and protection of marine mammals – a clash of cultures?” The very title of the conference, which was held at the beginning of June in the Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic and brought together both whalers and whaling opponents, gets to the heart of the problem. ...

Press release on the occasion of World Oceans Day, 8th June
One third of wild-caught fish end up in the meat and poultry industries and in aquaculture
About 80 million tons of marine animals are caught every year in the world's oceans; although it is generally known that overfishing is pushing marine life to the brink of collapse: an alarming 80% of the world's fish stocks are depleted, overfished or fished to their sustainable limits. And in predatory fish populations such as tuna, there has been about a 90% decrease. ...

SAVE supports tiger protection in India
Although the tiger in India is under the legal protection, dramatic reports on tigers killed in India seem to come thick and fast: In late April, a tiger was found dead with its legs caught in a steel trap. As a result the area is more strictly guarded and many poachers' traps were removed. ...

We are delighted to have the support of two “Bufdis”
For a few weeks now our team has been supported by two volunteers under the Federal Volunteer Service (BFD): geographer Anette Nomann, who started her community service on 1st March and biologist Kai Lyhme on 1st May. ...

SAVE demands the extradition to be stopped immediately
Paul Watson from Canada has been fighting to protect marine mammals for 40 years - especially against shark finning, in which 73 million sharks are killed for their fins or maimed and left to die slowly every year. ...

The “Healthy Fish” Myth
The recommendation about eating fish regularly gives a few causes for concern
Fish is supposed to be so healthy. Because it is an excellent source of omega 3 fatty acids, iodine, selenium and vitamin D, the German Nutrition Society, health insurance companies and nutrition experts advise eating one or two fish meals per week. ...

A foundation - stone has been laid for cooperation between SAVE and WildCRU
When Lars Gorschlüter flew in late April to Oxford to meet leading experts on species conservation, there were many important problems on the agenda to be solved: How to resolve a conflict between growing world population and endangered wild animals? ...

Would you like to support SAVE without paying a single cent? Though it sounds impossible, it's really quite simple: ...

For almost a year SAVE Wildlife Conservation Fund researcher, Torsten Bohm, has been travelling to the most remote areas of Gabon and Republic of the Congo. There were many sacrifices he had to face: walking through dense undergrowth in humid conditions for hours. Days and nights spent in the bush in less than comfortable conditions. All of this in order ...

In Africa, lions are killed because they prey on cattle. In Japan, dolphins are mercilessly slaughtered, because they allegedly eat valuable fish targeted by fishing fleets. Bear Bruno could live in Germany only few days, because he might ...

Juan Carlos, Spain's King, stands proud and upright in front of a huge elephant, he has killed. The picture was taken from a hunt a few years prior. This photo, has been distributed across the globe and the ‘back story’ has been reported by virtually every news outlet across the globe. Still the image and the story horrifies ...

Since last year, SAVE Wildlife Conservation Fund has been involved in a protest against a massive oil palm plantation planned by the American investor Herakles in south-western Cameroon. Over 70,000 hectares of native forests that host a unique variety of animal and plant species are to be cleared to give way to a giant oil palm plantation. There were ...

On Friday, March 30th, Ric O’Barry, the famed Academy Award winning documentary film maker and the trainer of the iconic dolphin “Flipper” from the original American TV series, visited the dolphinarium in Duisburg. O’Barry was there to speak out against the dreadful treatment of dolphins, and ...

500 people live in the Moreomaoto Village, located in the Kalahari Desert in Botswana and there are countless children among them. People still live primarily in traditional thatched rondavels, and a few in mud houses. There are few job opportunities in the area, and many people ...

For many months, the biologist Kristina Kesch with the support of SAVE has been conducting in Botswana the SAVE “Fence research” project. Kristina wants to find out if fences around the protected areas of the “Central Kalahari Game Reserve“ and “Makgadikgadi/Nxai Pans National Park“ are actually effective. These fences are meant to separate wild animals and cattle herds from each other and to fulfil the ...

Who are the people behind SAVE? Most of you probably know our team. Equally important are our sponsors and patrons that believe in SAVE and support our projects. And for that, they deserve our special thanks. Here we would like to introduce these ...

Richard O'Barry (Oscar THE COVE in 2010, winner of the Bambi aword in 2011) from Miami will participate the demonstration against the keeping of dolphins in the Duisburger Zoo on Friday, 30th of March, 2012, which will be initiated by the SAVE Wildlife Conservation ...

In the ‘70s there were 200 000 lions in the world. Now, there are only in the region of 25 000 of them left. That means the lion population has decreased by 90% within a few decades. The situation is worse with the African wild dog. This amazing predator is one of the most threatened with extinction on the African continent. There are only 3500-5000 of them in ...

In recent months, various environmental organizations such as the SAVE Wildlife Conservation Fund have fought in defence of an old, particularly species-rich rain forest in Cameroon. According to the plans of the American company Farm Hercules,70,000 hectares of rainforest should be cleared in one of the most important ecosystems ...

SAVE researcher Torsten Bohm has spent many months in the remote areas of Gabon in search for spotted hyenas, which had been considered extinct but thought to possibly return to the area one day. Tenacity and patience paid off for this biologist with sightings of many other animals, but the scientist found no trace of the spotted hyenas. They seem ...

SAVE continues the struggle for the Korup National Park
For the last few months SAVE has been attempting to fight against the cutting down of 70 thousand hectares of rainforest. The American investor, Heracles Capital, plans to set up an oil palm plantation there, ...

SAVE is working out the rescue plan for the last remaining wild dogs in the Kalahari
Our wild dog researchers from SAVE have had a hard week. Some of the animals with transmitters suddenly disappeared from the radar and it quickly became apparent why. ...

Children of the Elephants happy to see the “Heart for Africa” sent from Germany
The heart-shaped collage had travelled for almost 10 000 kilometres before Lars Gorschlüter, the founder of SAVE gave it to the “children of the elephants” a few days ago. ...

Our researcher, Torsten Bohm, who has traced the last remaining spotted hyenas in Gabon, sent us fantastic photos made by the remote controlled camera once again. This time the camera was activated when a leopard came about. ...

Fascinating pictures of animals taken with a remote controlled camera
Torsten Bohm, our researcher interested in hyenas, has just sent us some fascinating pictures from Gabon via e-mail. He took them with a remote controlled camera. ...

The danger over Cameroon rainforests has been suspended
On August 31st we received the good news that Hercules Capital – an American investor – was to refrain from any actions on the planned oil plantation area thanks to a temporary warrant. ...

SAVE Wildlfe Conservation Fund combines helping children and animal protection in Africa in an extraordinary way.
As few as 10 months after the organization was launched, the association has been awarded the 2nd prize in this year’s Animal Protection Award. ...

The bulldozers have already approached!
Herakles Capital, an international investment company based in New York, wants to deforest 80,000 hectares of rainforest in Cameroon in order to build a palm oil plantation. ...

Conversations with villagers, camera traps and enthusiastic children
We just received an email from Gabon by Torsten Bohm. A doctoral candidate in zoology, researching the last spotted hyenas in the Congo Basin. ...

Children of the Elephants made a joyful celebration for their families and volunteer care givers. The kids willingly organised one big party for their families and voluntary care givers with of course the help of the social workers: they demonstrated dances and songs, painted pictures, sang, and ate together. ...

Bet on the Women's World Cup results, helping raise donations for the foundation SAVE Wildlife Conservation Fund and win tickets for the World Cup Final with a little luck.
The fund broker Fondsvermittlung24.de, based in Wiesbaden, will be taking bets on the results for the Women's Football World Cup. ...

From New Zealand to South Africa, from India to Canada: 18,000 people around the globe have participated in a signature campaign against the deforestation of the oldest and with the largest number of species most biologically diverse rainforests on earth. ...

Moving ahead within the research of the CKGR team, we have recorded significant milestones. Keitumetse, one of our biologists from Botswana, is an important intermediary as a local researcher between farmers and wild animals. ...

First Indonesia, now Cameroon!
The rainforests on the golf of Guinea in Cameroon and Nigeria are the so called hotspot of bio diversity. Rare ones of twisting and chimpanzee live in the region, forest elephants, gorillas and leopards. ...

We welcome our new sponsors, M. Brenne and A. and D. Gorschlüter and their important contribution to nature conservation and species protection - Thank you! ...

Cries of the spotted hyena, similar to "laughing", in the savannah areas of the Congo Basin could belong to the past soon if little attention is paid. To protect the two last remaining populations in the Congo Basin, located in the northern area of the Republic of Congo and in the southeast of Gabon, SAVE Wildlife Conservation Fund has now found a big supporter with the Association for Dental Health, Functioning and Aesthetics (GZFA). ...

German Ambassador visits the SAVE children's center Bana Ba Ditlou
Lars Gorschlüter, the founder of SAVE Wildlife Conservation Fund, visited the SAVE child protection center Bana Ba Ditlou in Kasane on his last journey to Botswana together with the German ambassador in Botswana, Anne Günther. ...

Wülfrath (ots) – After more than six months of intensive planning Lars Gorschlüter, managing director of the GOTEC Group, put his concerns into action and founded the SAVE Wildlife Conservation Fund. ...

Every year from September to March Japanese fishermen kill an approximate 20,000 dolphins and small whales in the coastal waters of Japan. The village Taiji alone is responsible for the massacre of ~2,300 individuals of these intelligent marine mammals. ...

SAVE continues the struggle for the Korup National Park
For the last few months SAVE has been attempting to fight against the cutting down of 70 thousand hectares of rainforest. The American investor, Heracles Capital, plans to set up an oil palm plantation there, ...

SAVE is working out the rescue plan for the last remaining wild dogs in the Kalahari
Our wild dog researchers from SAVE have had a hard week. Some of the animals with transmitters suddenly disappeared from the radar and it quickly became apparent why. ...

Children of the Elephants happy to see the “Heart for Africa” sent from Germany
The heart-shaped collage had travelled for almost 10 000 kilometres before Lars Gorschlüter, the founder of SAVE gave it to the “children of the elephants” a few days ago. ...

Our researcher, Torsten Bohm, who has traced the last remaining spotted hyenas in Gabon, sent us fantastic photos made by the remote controlled camera once again. This time the camera was activated when a leopard came about. ...

Fascinating pictures of animals taken with a remote controlled camera
Torsten Bohm, our researcher interested in hyenas, has just sent us some fascinating pictures from Gabon via e-mail. He took them with a remote controlled camera. ...

The danger over Cameroon rainforests has been suspended
On August 31st we received the good news that Hercules Capital – an American investor – was to refrain from any actions on the planned oil plantation area thanks to a temporary warrant. ...

SAVE Wildlfe Conservation Fund combines helping children and animal protection in Africa in an extraordinary way.
As few as 10 months after the organization was launched, the association has been awarded the 2nd prize in this year’s Animal Protection Award. ...

The bulldozers have already approached!
Herakles Capital, an international investment company based in New York, wants to deforest 80,000 hectares of rainforest in Cameroon in order to build a palm oil plantation. ...

Conversations with villagers, camera traps and enthusiastic children
We just received an email from Gabon by Torsten Bohm. A doctoral candidate in zoology, researching the last spotted hyenas in the Congo Basin. ...

Children of the Elephants made a joyful celebration for their families and volunteer care givers. The kids willingly organised one big party for their families and voluntary care givers with of course the help of the social workers: they demonstrated dances and songs, painted pictures, sang, and ate together. ...

Bet on the Women's World Cup results, helping raise donations for the foundation SAVE Wildlife Conservation Fund and win tickets for the World Cup Final with a little luck.
The fund broker Fondsvermittlung24.de, based in Wiesbaden, will be taking bets on the results for the Women's Football World Cup. ...

From New Zealand to South Africa, from India to Canada: 18,000 people around the globe have participated in a signature campaign against the deforestation of the oldest and with the largest number of species most biologically diverse rainforests on earth. ...

Moving ahead within the research of the CKGR team, we have recorded significant milestones. Keitumetse, one of our biologists from Botswana, is an important intermediary as a local researcher between farmers and wild animals. ...

First Indonesia, now Cameroon!
The rainforests on the golf of Guinea in Cameroon and Nigeria are the so called hotspot of bio diversity. Rare ones of twisting and chimpanzee live in the region, forest elephants, gorillas and leopards. ...

We welcome our new sponsors, M. Brenne and A. and D. Gorschlüter and their important contribution to nature conservation and species protection - Thank you! ...

Cries of the spotted hyena, similar to "laughing", in the savannah areas of the Congo Basin could belong to the past soon if little attention is paid. To protect the two last remaining populations in the Congo Basin, located in the northern area of the Republic of Congo and in the southeast of Gabon, SAVE Wildlife Conservation Fund has now found a big supporter with the Association for Dental Health, Functioning and Aesthetics (GZFA). ...

German Ambassador visits the SAVE children's center Bana Ba Ditlou
Lars Gorschlüter, the founder of SAVE Wildlife Conservation Fund, visited the SAVE child protection center Bana Ba Ditlou in Kasane on his last journey to Botswana together with the German ambassador in Botswana, Anne Günther. ...

Wülfrath (ots) – After more than six months of intensive planning Lars Gorschlüter, managing director of the GOTEC Group, put his concerns into action and founded the SAVE Wildlife Conservation Fund. ...

Every year from September to March Japanese fishermen kill an approximate 20,000 dolphins and small whales in the coastal waters of Japan. The village Taiji alone is responsible for the massacre of ~2,300 individuals of these intelligent marine mammals. ...

SAVE continues the struggle for the Korup National Park
For the last few months SAVE has been attempting to fight against the cutting down of 70 thousand hectares of rainforest. The American investor, Heracles Capital, plans to set up an oil palm plantation there, ...

SAVE is working out the rescue plan for the last remaining wild dogs in the Kalahari
Our wild dog researchers from SAVE have had a hard week. Some of the animals with transmitters suddenly disappeared from the radar and it quickly became apparent why. ...

Children of the Elephants happy to see the “Heart for Africa” sent from Germany
The heart-shaped collage had travelled for almost 10 000 kilometres before Lars Gorschlüter, the founder of SAVE gave it to the “children of the elephants” a few days ago. ...

Our researcher, Torsten Bohm, who has traced the last remaining spotted hyenas in Gabon, sent us fantastic photos made by the remote controlled camera once again. This time the camera was activated when a leopard came about. ...

Fascinating pictures of animals taken with a remote controlled camera
Torsten Bohm, our researcher interested in hyenas, has just sent us some fascinating pictures from Gabon via e-mail. He took them with a remote controlled camera. ...

The danger over Cameroon rainforests has been suspended
On August 31st we received the good news that Hercules Capital – an American investor – was to refrain from any actions on the planned oil plantation area thanks to a temporary warrant. ...

SAVE Wildlfe Conservation Fund combines helping children and animal protection in Africa in an extraordinary way.
As few as 10 months after the organization was launched, the association has been awarded the 2nd prize in this year’s Animal Protection Award. ...

The bulldozers have already approached!
Herakles Capital, an international investment company based in New York, wants to deforest 80,000 hectares of rainforest in Cameroon in order to build a palm oil plantation. ...

Conversations with villagers, camera traps and enthusiastic children
We just received an email from Gabon by Torsten Bohm. A doctoral candidate in zoology, researching the last spotted hyenas in the Congo Basin. ...

Children of the Elephants made a joyful celebration for their families and volunteer care givers. The kids willingly organised one big party for their families and voluntary care givers with of course the help of the social workers: they demonstrated dances and songs, painted pictures, sang, and ate together. ...

Bet on the Women's World Cup results, helping raise donations for the foundation SAVE Wildlife Conservation Fund and win tickets for the World Cup Final with a little luck.
The fund broker Fondsvermittlung24.de, based in Wiesbaden, will be taking bets on the results for the Women's Football World Cup. ...

From New Zealand to South Africa, from India to Canada: 18,000 people around the globe have participated in a signature campaign against the deforestation of the oldest and with the largest number of species most biologically diverse rainforests on earth. ...

Moving ahead within the research of the CKGR team, we have recorded significant milestones. Keitumetse, one of our biologists from Botswana, is an important intermediary as a local researcher between farmers and wild animals. ...

First Indonesia, now Cameroon!
The rainforests on the golf of Guinea in Cameroon and Nigeria are the so called hotspot of bio diversity. Rare ones of twisting and chimpanzee live in the region, forest elephants, gorillas and leopards. ...

We welcome our new sponsors, M. Brenne and A. and D. Gorschlüter and their important contribution to nature conservation and species protection - Thank you! ...

Cries of the spotted hyena, similar to "laughing", in the savannah areas of the Congo Basin could belong to the past soon if little attention is paid. To protect the two last remaining populations in the Congo Basin, located in the northern area of the Republic of Congo and in the southeast of Gabon, SAVE Wildlife Conservation Fund has now found a big supporter with the Association for Dental Health, Functioning and Aesthetics (GZFA). ...

German Ambassador visits the SAVE children's center Bana Ba Ditlou
Lars Gorschlüter, the founder of SAVE Wildlife Conservation Fund, visited the SAVE child protection center Bana Ba Ditlou in Kasane on his last journey to Botswana together with the German ambassador in Botswana, Anne Günther. ...

Wülfrath (ots) – After more than six months of intensive planning Lars Gorschlüter, managing director of the GOTEC Group, put his concerns into action and founded the SAVE Wildlife Conservation Fund. ...

Every year from September to March Japanese fishermen kill an approximate 20,000 dolphins and small whales in the coastal waters of Japan. The village Taiji alone is responsible for the massacre of ~2,300 individuals of these intelligent marine mammals. ...