During our conservation expeditions, we visit our rainforest conservation areas in small teams before and after the purchase. We do this for scientific research, environmental education projects and media documentation, as well as drone footage and transparency regarding the use of your donations.
We provide insights into the early days of the foundation and our first expeditions to Canada from 2008 to 2014.
Our visits focus on the scientific recording of unique forest and wilderness areas.
During the trips, we create environmental education materials such as videos for YouTube or photos for school presentations. Above all, however, within the framework of the Environmental Ambassador Program students can travel directly to our protected areas and experience and explore them up close.
We also offer selected corporate partners who are exceptionally committed and work with us on a long-term basis the opportunity to view their protected forest area. In this way, they can make sure that their donation really gets through. They can also show videos and pictures of the protected area to employees, partners and customers who have supported the project. Often, these trips are an inspiration and motivation to protect even more forest and motivate more people to join in.
Carsten Herold from our long-time nature conservation partner Herolé Klassenfahrten takes a look at the protected areas in the Toba Valley.
Our expeditions are focused working trips in small expert teams of biologists, drone pilots and photographers/filmmakers. The trips are physically and mentally demanding due to the wilderness setting. We have to travel in selected teams that work well together.
If you would like to take a look at our protected areas, there are several opportunities: Students can apply to the Environmental Ambassadors program. Adults can apply to our partner Fauna Forever can apply. If you would like to visit our protected areas on your own, please contact us first.
Thank you for your interest. We can always use support! If you want to be on the ground and help, for example in Peru, the best way to do that is with our partner organization Fauna Forever (@faunaforever, https://www.faunaforever.org). There is more going on there than with us, because outside of the expeditions we mainly deal with bureaucracy in connection with land purchases. Fauna Forever has great research projects that you can help with, as well as other visiting opportunities bpsw. as part of an internship. They take place in the middle of the rainforest, partly directly in our protected areas. This way you will get to know our protected areas first hand and support us by helping with biodiversity research in our protected areas and by participating as forest guardian:in.
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