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IFAW works to rescue individual animals, safeguard populations, preserve habitat, and advocate for greater protections.
Image © Anna Suriny ach/MSF
Médecins Sans Frontières brings medical humanitarian assistance to victims of conflict, natural disasters, epidemics or healthcare exclusion.
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The team of "The Generation Forest" plants forests with focus on their ecological as well as economic viability. They have four active reforestation projects ongoing in Panama.
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UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children's lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfil their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.
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WWF wants to build a future in which people live in harmony with nature! WWF is striving to safeguard the natural world, helping people live more sustainably and take action against climate change.
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Aktion Deutschland Hilft, Germany's Relief Coalition is a union of German relief organisations that can provide rapid and effective aid in the case of large catastrophes and emergency situations abroad.
The IFAW is a global non-profit company helping animals and people thrive together. IFAW provides experts and everyday people, working across seas, oceans, and in more than 40 countries around the world. They rescue, rehabilitate, and release animals, and they restore and protect their natural habitats. The problems IFAW is up against are urgent and complicated. To solve them, IFAW matches fresh thinking with bold action. They partner with local communities, governments, non-governmental organisations, and businesses. Together, they pioneer new and innovative ways to help all species flourish.
Médecins Sans Frontières provides assistance to populations in distress, to victims of natural or man-made disasters and to victims of armed conflict. They do so irrespective of race, religion, creed or political convictions. Médecins Sans Frontières observes neutrality and impartiality in the name of universal medical ethics and the right to humanitarian assistance and claims full and unhindered freedom in the exercise of its functions.
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MSF offers assistance to people based on need. It doesn’t matter which country they are from, which religion they belong to, or what their political affiliations are. MSF gives priority to those in the most serious and immediate danger.
MSF's decision to offer assistance is based on their evaluation of medical needs, independent of political, economic or religious interests. MSF's independence is rooted in their funding; over 95 per cent comes from individual private donors giving small amounts. MSF strives to freely evaluate needs, access populations without restriction, and to directly deliver the aid they provide.
MSF does not take sides in armed conflicts nor support the agendas of warring parties. Sometimes MSF is not present on all sides to the conflict; this may be because access is denied to MSF, or due to insecurity, or because the main needs of the population are already covered.
The generation forest is a forestry model that was developed to help create a forest that provides for the needs of humanity as well as the environment. What makes it unique among other reforestation projects is that the forests are not clear-cut as they are in plantations. Instead of a monoculture, TGF plants a healthy mixture of different native tree species to create a dynamic ecosystem. Young and old trees are cultivated alongside one another in a permanent system: the generations of trees have a positive effect on their surrounding forest as well as on the animals that live within them.
Native tree species are optimally adapted to the local environment. Their growth in most soils is much faster than that of exotic tree species such as teak or eucalyptus.
TGF currently has a portfolio of 20 different tree species. This allows them to formulate the best mix of species for each project area’s unique characteristics.
Reforestations with native tree species provide a habitat for a variety of animals.
Climate change is one of the greatest challenges humanity has ever faced. That’s why The Generation Forest cooperative is dedicated to fostering a healthy global climate – by planting as many forests as possible, as sustainably as possible, all while working hand in hand with local people. In their work, the staff of TGF makes use of a groundbreaking innovation in sustainable forestry: the generation forest model.
TGF is convinced that entrepreneurial action can – and must – be socially responsible. Environmental protection can go hand in hand with a growing economy. Together with members from around the world, they can help plant sustainable “generation forests” that last for centuries – investing in humanity, biodiversity, and the future.
Last updated March 2021
Last updated March 2021
Last updated March 2021
TGF's goal is to plant one million trees by 2022. With their generation forest model – a productive, sustainable forest that lasts for centuries – they want to inspire and motivate people around the world to join them: to protect our climate, our environment, and each other.
The generation forest is a forestry model that was developed to help create a forest that provides for the needs of humanity as well as the environment. What makes it unique among other reforestation projects is that the forests are not clear-cut as they are in plantations. Instead of a monoculture, TGF plants a healthy mixture of different native tree species to create a dynamic ecosystem. Young and old trees are cultivated alongside one another in a permanent system: the generations of trees have a positive effect on their surrounding forest as well as on the animals that live within them.
When starting new projects, the staff of TGF first looks for suitable land. As a rule, these are pastures whose productivity has declined to such an extent that they are no longer valuable to farmers. After a site and soil analysis, a special mixture of native tree species is developed and planted, later, the stock is thinned out in order to promote the strongest individuals. From then on, TGF selectively removes mature trees and replace them with new ones.
Most reforestation projects consist of mass-planting of a single exotic tree species like eucalyptus or teak. When these projects are ended, the monocultures are cleared and the land is often left in a worse condition than before. TGF plants forests differently – with an eye to their ecological as well as economic viability. TGF currently has five active reforestation projects ongoing in Panama.
WWF is working for 30 per cent of all land, seas, and freshwater to become protected areas or community conserved areas run by indigenous peoples and local communities – with a further 20 per cent managed sustainably. WWF also aims to restore 350 million hectares of forest and our most valued rivers.
Image © Luis Barreto, WWF UK
WWF is striving to halt species extinction caused by human activity, with wildlife populations stable or increasing. To achieve this, WWF needs to end illegal over-exploitation and trade, sustainably use legally taken wildlife and wildlife products, reduce conflicts between people and wildlife, minimize incidental capture, and reduce the threat to wildlife caused by invasive species.
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WWF needs action on many fronts, including 50 per cent of agriculture and aquaculture production to be sustainably managed, and a doubling in sustainably managed fisheries. Food loss and waste must be halved, pollution stopped, and the global footprint of our diets halved. WWF also needs to see a halving of greenhouse gas emissions from 2010 levels.
Image © Karine Aigner/WWF-US
A few years ago, I visited my first global protector-meeting organized by WWF in Augsburg, Germany. I went there together with my dad.
On the one hand, it was great to see there are so many people who support the work of WWF. On the other side, it saddened us to see so many problems are out there which are nearly impossible to solve.
The meeting focused on plastic pollution of Mediterranean Sea, on plastic pollution at the beaches of Croatia, at oil drilling in Alaska and other regions which are covered by permanent ice.
WWF also showed us the social problems which arise from walruses escaping to Greenland due to melting ice at North Pole.
Because walruses have no or only very little refuge left they are forced to use what they find! In Greenland, this leads to Walruses getting closer to villages where people live in. Some Walruses were even hanging around
on the streets which scared people and led them to shoot at them.
WWF showed that many problems are linked to each other and the most important step is to solve the root of the problem! I hope that we can achieve this.
Yours Chris
Yours Chris
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