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Our short anniversary film shows impressively how many people were and are working for the foundation every day.

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Protected areas & Biosphere
This year, we launched a new project to establish the first biosphere reserve in Armenia, continued to work on the UNESCO World Heritage nomination of the Gobi Desert in Mongolia and supported the establishment of effective management in the Georgian Three Alazani Rivers Biosphere Reserve. We organised an international summer school in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, and with the new IKI One Health project, we are working with our partner organisations to improve and expand protected areas in Central Asia.

Peatland & Climate
We were able to inspire numerous participants with our field days, educational training and artistic workshops. Something completely new began in spring when we founded the PaludiAlliance with 14 companies together with the Umweltstiftung Michael Otto and the University of Greifswald under the umbrella of the toMOORow initiative. We were particularly pleased that Dr. Franziska Tanneberger was awarded the Deutscher Umweltpreis 2024 in October.

Natural heritage & Land use
One milestone achieved on our foundation areas was the start of the revitalisation of the Mannhagen Mire. In the Karrendorf meadows, damaged fords were cleared and replaced with new ones, tideways were improved and accessibility to hard-to-reach, silted areas was restored for cattle. In the Bollwintal, a natural sill was installed in the Schulzenfließ west of the Polsensee to stabilise the water level. This year's Succow & Knapp seminar took us from the north-east of Germany to the south-west.

The painter Caspar David Friedrich is another Greifswald celebrant this year: his 250th birthday was celebrated in our city. He and the Michael Succow Foundation are united not only by his birthplace, but also by their eye for the beauty and diversity of the landscape surrounding us. This year, we have therefore organised excursions to Friedrich's motifs, taken an artistic look at the peatland with "PEAToresk" and collected wonderful photos of Friedrich's skies above our foundation areas.

Wilderness without borders for landscape and biodiversity
In the Central Asian deserts and steppes, high border fences represent a barrier and risk of injury for numerous migratory mammals, including goitered gazelles, saiga antelopes and Persian leopards. Together with our local partner organisations, we are campaigning for passages for the animals - please read more about a wilderness without borders for the benefit of the landscape and biodiversity here!

Thank you for your continuous accompaniment and support.

Wilderness without borders.
An open path for Asiatic Wild Asses & co.
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Prof. em. Dr. Michael Succow                      Kathrin Succow
Founder & Right Livelihood Award Laureate     Chair of the Foundation Board