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Protecting nature

We want to protect nature

When nature is healthy,
people are healthy.
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We need nature.

But nature needs our help.

We help protect nature.
We help make nature strong.
Clean air is important.
Fresh water is important.
Healthy soil is important.
A healthy climate is important.

We want nature to be strong.
We need to help nature now.
We need to protect nature for the future.
We work with people who know lots about nature.
These people know how to protect nature.
They help us think about the future.

Businesses do better too

If the environment is healthy, businesses do better too.
Sea creatures can help with medicine

Lots of sea creatures can help with medicine.
Some sea creatures have special parts that can help make medicine.
Extreme weather costs money

Extreme weather means storms, floods and heatwaves.
Extreme weather costs money to businesses and governments.
Waste is floating in our seas

We keep adding more waste to the sea.

Our projects

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Save our moors

Moors help nature

Many moors are damaged.
This is very bad for the environment.
We want to save these moors.

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Master Plan Ems 2050

Nature and business are important for the Ems

There is a WWF project to help the river Ems.
The project will help the nature there.

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Our partners

Protecting nature together.

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The Loki Schmidt Foundation

The Loki Schmidt Foundation
is a nature group.
This group protects nature all over Germany.
It helps plants and animals.
It helps nature.
And it helps moors.
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WWF

WWF protects animals in danger.
WWF protects animals all over the world.
WWF also protects the places where these animals live.
This helps keep nature healthy and safe.
This protects nature for people in the future.
One WWF project is called Ems 2050.
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„Nowhere does nature store CO₂ as efficiently as in peatlands. Protecting them is not a nice-to-have, but a necessity in the fight against the climate crisis.“

Axel Jahn
Managing Director, Loki Schmidt Foundation

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Axel Jahn knows lots about moors.
Axel Jahn tells us why moors are so important.
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