Animal husbandry saves species
Citizen Conservation – working together against species extinction. People from animal husbandry, science and civil society save endangered species through conservation breeding.
Have joy, find fulfillment, sow hope –good reasons to do what makes sense
The extinction of species is one of the most visible symptoms of the threatening development on earth. The positive news is that everyone can make a tangible contribution to stopping the disaster. The extinction of species is one of the most visible symptoms of the threatening development on earth. The positive news is that everyone can make a tangible contribution to stopping the disaster.
Citizen Conservation brings together people who want to do something. As a coordinated conservation breeding program, Citizen Conservation turns citizens into conservationists, guides, inspires, creates knowledge and saves species from extinction.
News & Features
Many pieces of good advice – CC advisory board meeting 2025
On January 17 and 18, 2025, Citizen Conservation invited its advisory board to a joint meeting to discuss the progress of our species conservation program
Guimbeau’s day gecko
What a pretty little gecko and the large, extinct dodo have in common …
Vietnamese Three-striped Box Turtle
People just love them to bits: In the Asian turtle crisis, an entire group of animals on a continent is in danger of disappearing forever.
Stock overview 2 / 2024 – growing and thriving
Reproducing toads, approaching target numbers and new species in the participants' tanks - the population overview for the second half of 2024.
Who are you? Our AI species puzzle
CC species meets AI art: what kind of wondrous creatures does artificial intelligence create from the descriptions of our fosterlings? We have tried it out!
Citizen Conservation at the annual conference of the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria (EAZA)
At the EAZA Conference 2024, over 1000 participants from more than 50 countries took part in 130 individual events.
Tiger Limia
The Tiger Limia lives exclusively in the Caribbean's largest freshwater lake in Haiti. But its situation in the crisis-ridden country is precarious ...
More animal welfare, not a positive list!
Citizen Conservation signs joint position paper of key stakeholders on the amendment of the German Animal Welfare Act.
Phantasmal Poison Frog
Likelihood of confusion among frogs. How the ‘guppy’ among frogs became an endangered frog species: the story of the Phantasmal Poison Frog.
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The fight against species extinction is a task for society as a whole. Everyone can join in and make a tangible contribution.
Our mission
The fight against species extinction is a task for society as a whole. Everyone can join in and make a tangible contribution.