Naturschutzbund Deutschland

Naturschutzbund Deutschland
Motto	Working for people and nature
Established	1899 (126 years ago)
Founded at	Stuttgart
Types	charitable corporation, nonprofit organization
Legal status	registered association
Headquarters	Berlin
Country	Germany
Membership	854,000 ±500 (2023)
Chief Executives	Leif Miller, Susanne Baumann, Ingo Ammermann
Chairpersons	Jörg-Andreas Krüger
Revenue	89,449,711 Euro (2023)
Total Assets	63,587,641 Euro (2022)
Employees	341 (2023)
Volunteers	70,000 ±5000 (2023)
Website	www.nabu.de
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52°31′23″N 13°22′43″E / 52.523136°N 13.378625°E / 52.523136; 13.378625

NABU Station Haus Wattwurm on the Speicherkoog Dithmarschen

The Naturschutzbund Deutschland e.V. ("Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union") or NABU is a German non-governmental organisation (NGO) dedicated to conservation at home and abroad, including the protection of rivers, forests and individual species of animals.

General facts

NABU is one of the largest, most well-known, nature conservation groups in Germany and has worked for over 100 years for people and nature. NABU carries out specific conservation projects, maintains a research institute, runs environmental training and informs the media and public about important topics connected with the environment and nature conservation. The society is formally recognised by the German state as an environmental and conservation society, a body responsible for public issues (Träger öffentlicher Belange), and must therefore be consulted over issues affecting the ecology.

NABU has, together with its sister organisation in Bavaria, about 830,000 members (as of June 2022^[update]) as active conservationists or supporters. They are organised into about 2,000 local groups across Germany.

NABU is the national partner organisation of BirdLife International. The organisation is one of the most significant members of the German umbrella organization of the German conservation movement Deutscher Naturschutzring [de] (DNR).

History

The NABU was founded by Lina Hähnle on 1 February 1899 in Stuttgart as the Bund für Vogelschutz (BfV). In 1990 the BfV merged with former DDR Naturschutz society to Naturschutzbund Deutschland (NABU). Since then, the focus got broader and NABU built up divisions for international conservation projects, marine conservation and energy sufficiency.