The past decade has been one of unprecedented weather extremes. At least for extreme rainfall and heat waves the link with human-caused global warming is clear, the scientists show in a new analysis…
The Greenland ice sheet is likely to be more vulnerable to global warming than previously thought. Today, already 0.8 degrees global warming has been observed, which can cause substantial melting of…
Naturefund wins one of the most important prizes for sustainability. The reforestation project in Honduras by „Naturefund Forest Network“ was presented with the NATIONAL Energy Global Award on the… Read more
Kirr island is an official bird protection zone, due to the island's unique importance as breeding place for coastal birds. 23 kinds of coastal birds breed here. Among them is the rare Redshank - of… Read more
Kirr island is an island in the Baltic Sea, located between the German county Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and the German peninsula Fischland-Darß-Zingst. The coasts of the type vorpommerische… Read more
The pied avocet with its black and white plumage and long curved beak counts among the most striking wading birds. Fortunately, its population numbers have increased lately thanks to the successful… Read more
Naturefund and the National Park Office of Western Pomerania purchased 40,500 m² of territory on Kirr island in the Baltic Sea to include the territory permanently in the national park. Its saltmarsh… Read more
“We have a vast number of possibilities - With tens of billions some states subsidize fossil fuels like oil. This was dubbed “an absurdity of our economic system” by Achim Steiner Read more
Toronto City councillors have voted to adopt a city-wide shark fin ban, becoming the largest city in Canada to prohibit the sale of shark fin Read more
A number of sand lizards live on the piece of land Naturefund aims to convert back into a floodplain in Frankfurt-Sossenheim. By buying the land Naturefund is establishing a protected habitat for the… Read more
