Becoming a breeder
At Citizen Conservation, professionals and private enthusiasts work hand in hand. You’ll find information on how you can participate here.
Becoming a breeder
At Citizen Conservation, professionals and private enthusiasts work hand in hand. You’ll find information on how you can participate here.
Becoming a conservationist
Thousands of species are on the verge of extinction. Many animals can no longer survive in the wild. Zoos are working hard to conserve animals through captive breeding, but their capacities and resources are limited. Many private breeders have space, time, passion, and knowledge. Citizen Conservation (CC) unites private and professional conservationists in the fight against extinction. You, too, can breed an endangered species at home, and help it survive the next century.
Expert knowledge and accomodation
Every private breeder with some expertise and the necessary equipment can participate in protecting and conserving endangered animals.
Breeding
The animals are the property of Citizen Conservation but are bred by participants according to our recommendations. We will arrange accommodations for the offspring.
Coordination and Management
You report your breeding results back to us, and we manage the animals and data according to our breeding experience. We assemble the breeding groups and ensure the conservation of their genetic diversity.
The right animal for everyone
General Counsel Oliver Witte breeds Lake Patzcuaro Salamanders. © Oliver Witte
Have you done a lot of research, but you don’t have any practical experience yet? Or have you been breeding wild animals for years? We have the right species for everyone. To make your decision easier, the species in Citizen Conservation are divided into three categories:
Category I
Only for specialists and / or for animals that cannot be bred outside of Citizen Conservation.
Category II
For advanced animal breeders with practical experience; the animals may possibly be redistributed by Citizen Conservation.
Kategorie III
Easy to breed successfully without prior experience, but with the appropriate expertise; the animals can be redistributed by Citizen Conservation.
On the Species page you can take a closer look at the species currently in the program.
Bio Security
Sampling a Common Toad © Susanne Knakowske, Frogs & Friends
Diseases and epidemics are a serious problem for conservation breeders. Therefore, Citizen Conservation finances the testing of all animals according to veterinary recommendations before they change locations. The breeder sends the required samples to Citizen Conservation’s partner laboratory to analyze. The animals can be passed on after they are cleared by the lab. This process ensures that the participants receive healthy animals (insofar as the lab can guarantee) and that no epidemic or dangerous parasites are spread through Citizen Conservation.
Animal distribution
Lemur Leaf Frog © Benny Trapp, Frogs & Friends
Our experts have defined goals for the number of animals and breeders for each species. Until we have reached these goals, the offspring bred within the program have to stay within the Citizen Conservation framework. If the breeding program produces more animals than the goal Citizen Conservation has set, they can be redistributed to other breeders. In this way, healthy animals from our breeding programs can be available to people outside the program in order to reduce wild hunting. Species from Category I cannot be redistributed.
Cooperations
Toad migration © Anne Rauhaus
IKS, Internationaler Kurier Service GmbH, is a company that operates in the transport and logistics sector. Since 2002, IKS has been transporting small animals safely, carefully and reliably and, of course, in compliance with the applicable animal welfare transport regulations.
Our cooperation with IKS results in several advantages for CC participants. In addition to the safe shipping of animals in Germany and the surrounding area, pet owners receive a discount on the transport of their animals. Our active participants receive this discount not only on the shipping of animals that are cared for as part of the CC programme, but may also ship other animals they keep at the special conditions.
Feed the fish – and the frogs! © waysidelynne, Shutterstock
faunatopics GmbH supplies customers throughout Europe with a wide range of food insects. For our cooperation, we source food insects from six feet to eat GmbH, which was acquired by faunatopics and is based in Schnürpflingen. All common food insect species are bred there in food quality.
CC participants can purchase feed from six feet to eat at discounted prices for their animals – even for privately kept animals that are not part of a CC conservation breeding programme. In addition, school zoos receive a monthly voucher of € 5 from a value of € 30 per order. fauna topics also donates 5% of the turnover of all orders to Citizen Conservation.
Contact
Citizen Conservation Foundation gGmbH
Reichenberger Street 88
10999 Berlin
Germany
Phone: +49 (0) 30 92 10 13-223
Mail: info |at| citizen-conservation.org
Web: www.citizen-conservation.org
Contact
Citizen Conservation Foundation gGmbH
Reichenberger Street 88
10999 Berlin
Germany
Phone: +49 (0) 30 92 10 13-223
Mail: info |at| citizen-conservation.org
Web: www.citizen-conservation.org