We were proud to have Prof. Dr. Marian Horzinek (in memoriam), one of the world’s most renowned virologists on cat diseases.
He was also the founding President of the International Society of Feline Medicine. “It is not just the black jaguar, that elegant and elusive feline, it is its ecosystems that needs our attention and care”.
460km!
That is the goal of the total distance that will be covered in less than 7 days – by foot! – by Thijs, Ceriel, Sam and Daniella in support of the BJF. Their goal is also to raise € 5,250 through donations. Watch their power video about the first 380km!
Thanks to JustGiving, these BJF Warriors were able to create their own fundraising campaign and support our mission. The best part, you can still help them to reach their goals. Check out their official page to make your donation!
After Amsterdam and São Paulo, we now have our presence in Munich, Germany! Thanks to the devotion and energy of our dedicated team-member Floris Wouterson, we now have a dedicated team of BJF supporters in Germany.
Headed by Hans Hagen, the team will create partnerships, raise awareness and funding for the Araguaia Biodiversity Corridor. The Munich based company Drehmoment Film sponsors the BJF with offices and facilities. 23 July 2015 was the kick-off presentation.
Meet Hans Hagen. As an energetic businessman Hans leads his insurance-brokerage company based in Munich. With a passion for preserving our planet, Hans donates his valuable time to organize fundraising-events and to establish partnerships for the BJF in Germany and beyond.
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Have you ever heard of the “flying rivers”? This term was created to define the giant quantities of water that float above the Amazon rainforest and Cerrado. They come from the tonnes of water that evaporate from the trees: it is a green water factory! Huge masses of vapour travel thousands of miles bringing rainfall over Latin America. The droughts in South East Brazil prove what we have known for a long time: no forests, no rain!
Last April 2015, our sponsor-partner Roemer Kamp & Partners, a leading asset-management company based in the Netherlands, organized a special dinner-info-evening for their clients, seeking to share their partnership experience with the BJF and communicate their involvement with preserving our planet. It was a great success!
After a 1-hour presentation about the importance of the Araguaia Biodiversity Corridor and BJF’s tasks to help realize it, the guests enjoyed a delightful dinner. A special thanks to Prof. Jan van Hooff for the introduction speech and for Jord, Jean-Michel and Marco for making this inspiring evening come true.
In May 2015, the Brazilian government extended the deadline by one year to register all rural properties on a national registry named CAR (Rural Environmental Registry).
This database will be fundamental for the new Forest Code, as it creates a complete map of all (de)forested areas in Brazil. Each property must preserve at least 20% for nature, depending on the region.
The BJF engages on social platforms to raise awareness of our cause. In April 2015 BJF joined a new social platform, Tsū. Tsū counted 4 million registered accounts after the first six months, a number that took Facebook two years to reach.
We thank both contestants @LiveFearlessly (Dan Skaler, Australia) and @AnnaLieb (Anna Ortlieb, U.S.), for their incredible creativity and hard work they put into their respective campaigns.
Meet Ivan Nisida, one of BJF’s representatives working full time in Brazil. His job is to extend the BJF network in Brazil and conduct research in preparation of our Mapping Project, such as the New Brazilian Forest Code.
Meet our illustrious new Ambassador, Dr. Jan van Hooff! Jan is a former president of the Royal Netherlands Zoological Society and has built a successful career as a professor in Ethology and Socio-ecology at Utrecht University.
Dr. Jan van Hooff believes another path of development, less destructive, can be chosen. To achieve that, a truly ecological mentality must rise, and he wants to help building it through his role as Ambassador of the Black Jaguar Foundation.
