DER TOURISTIK Foundation On the right track 2022

OUR WORLD
IS AT STAKE
The DER Touristik Foundation supports various different environmental projects
Key challenge
Climate protection and the
conservation of natural resources
constitute a key challenge for society.
Through its current funding projects,
the DER Touristik Foundation is
making a positive contribution to the
conservation of natural resources and
hence global environmental protection
and climate action.
Coral reef protection
The organisation is supporting
measures designed to protect the
coral reefs that have been suffering
all around the world for years due to
changing environmental conditions:
the rise in water temperature, ocean
acidification, hurricanes, overfishing,
pesticides and other toxic substances
are adversely affecting the calcareous
skeletal frames that have taken
years and years to form. As a result,
the coral reefs first lose their colours
before they eventually die and become
overrun with algae. The DER Touristik
Foundation is specifically helping to
protect coral reefs through a project
in Barbados.
Natural habitats
What’s more, the organisation is striving
to safeguard the survival of Aldabra
giant tortoises in Mauritius, which
in turn is helping to ensure that the
natural habitats on the island, which
are also even essential to humans, are
being restored. Social and ecological
aspects often go hand in hand, as is the
case with a comprehensive regional
development project in Tanzania,
whereby the aim is not only to conserve
ecological habits and biodiversity in
Ngorongoro National Park but also to
educate children and young people.
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