Annette Spangenberg

Head of Conservation

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Annette Spangenberg’s work can be described quite easily: identifying challenges and mastering them. Annette Spangenberg has been Projects Lead since 2013, and as such her role places her at the interface between the various projects and the EuroNatur organisation itself. The project partners and the Foundation don’t always share the same concerns - so it is Annette Spangenberg’s job to bring their respective requirements together, ideally reaching a consensus. At the same time, she provides advice and assistance, in particular to EuroNatur’s project leaders, working with them to develop ideas and supporting them when they are faced with difficult tasks.

And more than anything, it is Annette’s experience of around ten years as a project leader at EuroNatur that enables her to achieve this. A member of the Foundation’s team since 2002, the landscape conservationist’s focus areas were the Balkan lynxthe wolf and the Mediterranean monk seal. Annette Spangenberg has knowledge both of EuroNatur’s key subject areas and of the Balkan countries, together with their specific characteristics. “One of the reasons I enjoy working at the foundation so much is that at EuroNatur there’s no such thing as routine work and I’m able to continually develop my skills. Every day I get a lot of satisfaction from helping our partners to raise the profile of nature conservation work in their own countries - despite, and perhaps also because of, the many challenges we encounter along the way.”

News

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++ Constitutional complaint filed by NGOs accepted for trial ++ First milestone in fight against one of Europe’s largest reservoirs ++ Thousands of…

Growing opposition to Albanian airport

++ Bern Convention calls on Albania to stop airport construction near Narta Lagoon ++ Project in Vjosa Delta endangers thousands of migratory birds ++…

EU Commission targets the wolf

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Romanian forests: EuroNatur calls for a logging moratorium

+++ Open letter to Commissioner Sinkevičius calls for a logging moratorium in protected areas to end destruction of Romanian forests +++ Fourth…

Controversial airport construction in Albanian protected area casts shadow as far as Munich

++ Operating company Munich Airport International (MAI) is linked to illegal Vlora airport ++ Construction to take place in protected area of special…

Swimming for the monk seal

The Croatian free water swimmer Dina Levačić has been swimming in potential monk seal territories. Her campaign is aimed at drawing attention to the…

Wolf Offspring confirmed in the Black Forest

++ Photo trap image from the community of Schluchsee provides evidence of offspring ++ First wolf pack in over 150 years in Baden-Württemberg ++

Stork Village meeting in Tykocin, Poland

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A slight sigh of relief for the Dalmatian pelicans

The Dalmatian pelicans at Lake Skadar are breeding successfully. This is all the more gratifying because last year's breeding season was disastrous.