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Bsal Outbreak Among Fire Salamanders at the Bielefeld Botanical Garden
The salamander-eating fungus Bsal continues to spread and is now affecting one of Germany’s largest fire salamander populations in Bielefeld. Experts are warning of massive losses and criticizing the…
Annual Report 2025
There’s quite a lot going on at CC: a new colleague in species management, a partnership to protect the Alpine salamander, expanding programmes and the first ‘CC branch’ in Italy
EAZA Conservation Forum in Kronberg
The EAZA Conservation Forum in Kronberg brings zoos and conservation organizations together to jointly develop solutions to combat species extinction.
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…
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’.
CC calendar 2026 – species conservation month by month
The first CC calendar is now available. It focuses on twelve endangered species – species conservation right on your own wall!