ZEISS announces partnership with Birdability, a non-profit organization based in the U.S.. Birdability’s vision is that birding is truly for everybody and their mission is to share the joys of birding with people who have disabilities, and to ensure birding is accessible for everyone.

ZEISS is partnering with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology to foster the next generation of ornithologists. Young Birders Weekend brings together young people who want to share and deepen their enthusiasm for birding.

Spotted Greenshank is listed as ‘Endangered’ on the IUCN Red List, with the remaining global population estimated at approximately 1,500 individuals. It currently faces an ongoing decline, driven principally by habitat loss and degradation, at unprotected non-breeding sites.

Global climate change has made the lives of the long winged club harder with longer migration routes, faster migrations and desertification among other heightened risks. ZEISS is supporting the International Birding & Research Centre, Eilat in safeguarding the skies of the flyway and stopover sites that the birds use.

Together with the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel (SPNI), ZEISS protects various migration routes across Israel. Measures include the renaturation of fish ponds, the construction of resting and feeding areas, and the preservation of food sources. As a result, numerous rare species are able to migrate to Africa each year along a safe route.

Jordsand is committed to the protection of migratory and seabirds and their habitats. ZEISS supports this in joint cooperation.

ZEISS has been supporting the NABU Nature Conservation Center on Lake Federsee in Germany for around 20 years, including through its permanent loan of binoculars. These are not only used by volunteers involved in nature and wildlife conservation on site, but are also made available to visitors, for example during guided tours.

As ground-nesting birds, grassland birds face extreme threats from nocturnal predators. Together with the Vorarlberg Nature Conservation Association, ZEISS has made it its mission to protect the populations of these birds through biotope management and intensive measures to defend against predators. As a result, numerous successes have already been achieved at the local level.

"This Award aims to encourage young people to become more involved with birds and wildlife, hopefully leading to a lifetime as ambassadors for conservation." - Mark Pearson, Patron

ZEISS has proudly supported the conservation efforts to safeguard vultures in Kenya from 2020 to 2021. There are eleven different vulture species in Africa, but their population has been reduced by over 65 percent in the past 20 years.

Thanks to intensive conservation measures of BirdLife International, the habitats of the Northern Bald Ibis in Morocco have made a recovery. The project was successfully completed.

Organized by BirdLife South Africa, Middlepunt Wetland Trust and Rockjumper Birding Tours, the event was started to support conservation efforts for the critically endangered white-winged flufftail.