Was it only during the pandemic that you also only learned to appreciate how much natural space we still have in Germany? And since then, have you also felt that our natural heritage has to be preserved at all costs? If so, then you feel the same as way we do.
Since the end of the pandemic, our January donation has been going to Wohlleben’s forest project. This project works as follows:
For the amount donated, the Wohlleben Foundation leases a piece of forest with old trees for 50 years and then doesn’t do anything with it. Yes, you read that correctly. The forest is allowed to do whatever it wants there. The aim is to create a self-regenerating virgin forest. To this end, no timber is removed, as is ensured by a corresponding entry in the German land register.
As of March 2026, we have already placed 3,509 square metres of forest under our protection in this way.
The target is two-fold: preserve the last remaining primeval forests in Germany, but also uphold species protection, because the dead wood that inevitably accumulates there (and is not cleared away) provides a habitat for numerous insects that would otherwise be threatened with extinction.
The only risk associated with this measure is that, at some point, there will be no more forests left to protect. But this will not happen soon or, as an old Frankfurt saying goes “a lot of water will flow down the Main River before that happens”.