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Naturschutzbund Deutschland e.V.

Acronym: NABU

General Information

Identification Code: 0285583802-96
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Entity Form: Verband
Registration Category: Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
Registration Date: 12/17/2008
Last Update: 3/14/2024
EP Accredited Number: 2

Mission & Interests

Goals: NABU is the German partner of BirdLife Europe / BirdLife International. NABU, the German Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union, was founded already in 1899. Today, with more than 900.000 members and supporters, it is the oldest and largest nature conservation NGO in Germany. NABU is a registered charity under German law (eingetragener, gemeinnütziger Verein). Due to the federal structure of Germany with shared responsibilities for nature conservation between the federal government and the governments of the 16 Federal States (Laender), NABU has 15 regional branches, and more than 2.000 local groups. In Bavaria, NABU is represented by the “Landesbund fuer Vogelschutz” (LBV, www.lbv.de).
Interests Represented: Does not represent commercial interests
Interests:
  • Agriculture and rural development
  • Budget
  • Climate action
  • Competition
  • Consumers
  • Economy, finance and the euro
  • Energy
  • Environment
  • Food safety
  • Institutional affairs
  • International co-operation and development
  • Maritime affairs and fisheries
  • Regional policy
  • Research and innovation
  • Trade
  • Trans-European Networks
  • Transport
  • Youth
Levels of Interest:
  • national
  • global
  • sub-national
  • european

Activities

Main EU Legislative Proposals: Concretely, NABU is inter alia focusing on implementing the EU Green Deal, with its EU Biodiversity Strategy, EU Farm to Fork Strategy, etc. NABU is also pushing for implementation of existing EU legislation such as the Birds and the Habitats Directive. In general, NABU focuses on the conservation of biodiversity. Following the NABU motto “For humans and nature”, especially the implementation of EU environmental law, are major topics for NABU and its groups. Besides nature conservation, NABU also works on agriculture and fisheries, climate and energy, air quality, circular economy, and sustainable transport.
Communication Activities: Quarterly members magazine “Naturschutz heute”, monthly NABU-Newsletter on Environmental Policy, Policy papers and brochures on various topics covered by NABU, recent projects “Welcome Wolf”, “Restoration of the river Havel” and various others, all over the country.
Inter-institutional or Unofficial Groupings: Biodiversity, hunting, countryside,Climate change, biodiversity and sustainable development,Green new deal

Head Office

Address: Charitestraße, 3
Post Code: 10117
City: Berlin
Country: GERMANY
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EU Office

Address: c/o BirdLife Europe, c/o Hive5Cours Saint-Michel 30B
Post Code: 1040
City: Brüssel
Country: BELGIUM
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Financial Data

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Complementary Information: NABU wird hauptsächlich durch Mitgliedsbeiträge seiner mehr als 900.000 Mitglieder und spenden finanziert. Diese beiden Kategorien machen ca. 60% unserer Einnahmen aus. Hinzu kommen 17,1% öffentliche Zuschüsse aus Deutschland und der EU. Durch Erbschaften konnten wir 10.7% unserer Einnahmen generieren. Die weiteren kleineren Einnahmequellen können Sie unserem Jahresbericht entnehmen (S. 42): https://www.nabu.de/imperia/md/content/nabude/nabu/220902-jahresbericht-2021.pdf. Da es sich um eine Vielzahl von Einnahmequellen handelt, macht kein einzelner Beitrag mehr als 10% unseres Gesamtbudgets aus.

Membership Information

Members10 Percent: 29
Members25 Percent: 13
Members50 Percent: 2
Members75 Percent: 3
Members: 50
Members F T E: 12.399999618530273
Info Members: NABU employs about 300 people, most of whom work in the Berlin office. In our Brussels office, there are 3 full time policy officers working on EU-policy.

Structure

Structure Type: Structure
Organisation Members: NABU is an independent, democratic, grassroots organisation, and partner of BirdLife International. There is one BirdLife partner per country. BirdLife International has partners in all 27 EU member states. In Europe, there are 41, plus Israel, so in total 42 member organisations. Together they represent 1.8 million members (natural persons). For a complete list of all conservation organisations in Europe see: http://www.birdlife.org/regional/europe/partnership.html NABU is a member of, inter alia: BirdLife International (NABU is the German partner), www.birdlife.org European Environmental Bureau (EEB), www.eeb.org Climate Action Network (CAN), www.caneurope.org Transport and Environment (T&E), www.transportenvironment.org IUCN, www.iucn.org Deutscher Naturschutzring (DNR, umbrella organization of German environmental NGOs), www.dnr.de Forum Umwelt und Entwicklung (FUE, network of German NGOs following the CBD-process), www.forum-ue.de