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Conservation breeding programmes in the City of Love

Citizen Conservation at the EAZA conference in Paris: working with zoos and private owners to strengthen conservation breeding programmes for endangered species.

Deemed important – News from the Alpine Salamander Competence Centre of Excellence

Weighing Day at the Alpine Salamander Competence Centre – following a previous visit by a minister, an international conference, crowds of visitors and a touch of salamander ‘erotica’.

One block: Citizen Conservation at a specialist conference

At the annual conference of our shareholder, the DGHT – Germany’s most important gathering of experts in the field of amphibians and reptiles – CC was represented not only by half of its Executive…

Citizen Conservation nominated for the German Sustainability Award

Citizen Conservation is among the nominees for the German Sustainability Award. The award recognises pioneering and exemplary products, services and systems – and we are delighted that CC is among…

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…

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