Expedition to Planet Earth
How can we use the biological wealth of our earth without destroying it? The investigations and reports of Nature Counts try to address this issue. Exemplary models of sustainability and responsible use of nature's resources are researched, analysed and published all over the world.
Life Counts
In 2000, publicists Michael Gleich, Dirk Maxeiner and Michael Miersch as well as designer Fabian Nicolay initiated a large-scale census in nature. Preferably all animal populations of the world were recorded. The data appeared in books also published in Chinese, Spanish and American. The World Conservation Monitoring Centre in Cambridge, UK acted as scientific partner. Moreover, we cooperated with the environmental programme of the United Nations and the International Union for Nature Conservation. Worldwide, Life Counts presented the most important models for the sustainable use of biological diversity. The project was completed before the Culture Counts Foundation was established in 2003.
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We Alps!
This research project is based on the complex study "Future in the Alps" of the International Commission for the Protection of the Alps, CIPRA. Cross-border and trans-disciplinary working, collaboration with others and joint solutions - that is the CIPRA approach. In the case of the projects handled by the organisation and its various information services, CIPRA always has a main focus on networking and knowledge exchange. Reporter and photographers of "Zeitenspiegel", a network of journalists based in Stuttgart-Weinstadt, not only picture urgent dangers in the high mountains comprehensively but mainly concentrate on solutions. Models for the sustainable use of the Alps are introduced and explained in 15 reports together with background information and maps.