Animal population overview 1/2026 – Encouraging growth, first breakthroughs and new species
22 May: International Day for Biological Diversity – and the half-yearly CC stock overview. With good news: we’ve made several leaps forward.
News from the Citizen Conservation Blog
One plan, one goal, three partners: Cooperation between CC and Me Linh Center for Biodiversity in Vietnam
In view of the biodiversity crisis, all stakeholders in species conservation must work together. Citizen Conservation is implementing this in an exemplary manner with a newly agreed and closely…
The Big Frog Migration
First smuggled, then confiscated, now bred. Two endangered frog species have made their way from Zurich Zoo to the Karlsruhe Zoological Garden and the terrariums of private keepers from Citizen…
Even toads are political – CC Advisory Board meeting in Berlin
Proper studbooks in an increasingly messier world: the annual meeting of the CC Advisory Board and Supervisory Board focused on our conservation breeding programmes and international species…
Animal population overview 2/2025 – Breeding by the numbers
With the cut-off date of 1 November 2025, CC once again presented its half-yearly inventory overview. The conclusion: it is growing and thriving! And: there is still much to be done.
True crime in the mountains
A crime story with a happy ending – hopefully. Around 50 Alpine Salamanders fell victim to a crime and could now lay the foundation for saving the ‘Amphibian of the Year 2026’.