CfN News | Chances for Nature

How efficient is the reforestation? Study on restoring destroyed forest areas in Kirindy

Dec 11, 2022 | Aktionen & Initiativen, CfN News, Madagaskar

Every year, fires threaten and destroy the remaining natural habitats of Madagascar. Our project area in the Kirindy Forest is also acutely threatened by this. Due to slash-and-burn agriculture, deforestation in the region has steadily increased since 2010 and reached...

Mission on our doorstep: our biotope project in Göttingen

Jul 8, 2022 | Aktionen & Initiativen, CfN News

At the beginning of the year, we were very happy about the start of our first nature conservation project in Germany: since then, we have been supporting the renaturation of a biotope for native flora and fauna on the grounds of the German Primate Center in Göttingen....

Little Rangers 5.0: The environmental education camp went into the next round

May 19, 2022 | Aktionen & Initiativen, CfN News, Madagascar

In April, it was time for the next round of the Little Rangers environmental education camp in Madagascar! More than 100 children from 5 different schools in the Menabe region participated enthusiastically in the workshops, which were also accompagnied by former...

A new sanctuary for gibbons, hornbills and co.

Mar 21, 2022 | Aktionen & Initiativen, CfN News, Myanmar

On today’s International Day of Forests, we have good news from Myanmar! An important milestone for our gibbon conservation project in the Arakan Mountains has been reached: the area has officially been designated as the new approx. 40,000 hectare Mann River Wildlife...

Creative eco-education: the mobile library in Kirindy

Feb 4, 2022 | Aktionen & Initiativen, CfN News, Madagascar

In Madagascar, education on environmental issues is unfortunately not part of the curriculum, and textbooks that don’t cover the core subjects are relatively rare and expensive. This is especially true for the rural regions in the west of the island and thus also for...

We celebrate 10 years of Chances for Nature

Dec 22, 2021 | Allgemein, CfN News

In the middle of the Christmas season, we have another reason to celebrate: 10 years of Chances for Nature! On 15 December 2011, we founded CfN in a PhD student’s office at the German Primate Center and can now already look back on a whole decade of work for...