Can we cooperate?
If you share our passion and concerns, we would be delighted to cooperate with you. Information about financial support can be found in LHNet's Sponsorship Leaflet. For infomation about our organization, please check out LHNet's Corporate leaflet.
For directly contacting us, please send us an e-mail (Hans Kampf, Director LHNet).
Large herbivores are under serious threat, they need your help
Large herbivores in Eurasia are vital for nature, biodiversity and natural processes. They are “ambassadors” for Eurasia’s wild nature. About two-thirds of the Eurasia’s wild grazers are under serious threat. This is a cause for concern, which the Large Herbivore Network (LHNet) wants to solve. We do not want to do this alone - indeed, we cannot - and therefore we would like to explore the possibilities for cooperation, for instance in the form of Corporate Sponsorship, between the Large Herbivore Network and companies, funds and others interested in the well-being of the large herbivores.
LHNet has a wide range of activities, including:
- enhancing cooperation between experts in 57 countries in Eurasia, in order to harmonize science and practice;
- promoting efforts to give large herbivores a place in regional and international nature policy;
- identifying, encouraging and carrying out the necessary actions to improve the situation for the large herbivores in their habitats, in cooperation with local people and experts;
- raising the awareness of governments and citizens about the ecological significance of large herbivores, their beauty and the socio-economic opportunities that they offer;
- implementing protection and restoration programmes through the provision of advice and financial support to local projects;
- promoting more space for natural processes and wilderness in Europe and Asia.
Nature management can be more sustainable
The large herbivores, together with beavers and wild boar, and predators and scavengers, are essential to the maintenance and reinforcement of natural processes: one makes room – or provides food – for the other, they cannot exist without each other. It is our ambition, working with other organizations, to find space for natural processes, also called wilderness or wild nature – vast landscapes in Europe and Asia where agriculture is retreating - but also to offer new opportunities to the people who have lived there for generations.
Nature management can be cheaper, if more space is made for natural processes, by also making use of originally occurring wild herbivores. It cuts both ways: there is more space for wild animals in the vast landscapes, and nature management becomes more sustainable, because it is more affordable, more exciting and challenging for the general public.
What are we looking for?
We are looking for cooperation – long-lasting, if possible - with companies, zoos, funds and people interested in the survival and beauty of vital populations of large herbivores in the wild (and all other species that benefit from them).
Cooperation and sponsorship of LHNet bring among others:
- ties with the protection of appealing species that live in large areas and play an important role in the quality of ecosystems, including their socio-economic benefits;
- through our growing network, you will be able to show your support for nature to thousands of people worldwide with for example a special web page on www.lhnet.org dedicated to your organization;
- arrangement of VIP packages for you, your employees or your business relations: experience large herbivores in their wild territories.
