The Board of Directors

The board of directors of the Global Nature Fund is made up of between three and seven people as stated in the charter. The committee is voted by the board of directors of the German Environmental Aid Foundation (Deutsche Umwelthilfe e.V.) for a period of four years. The board of directors manages the foundation according to the requirements set out in the charter and is liable to a precise and economical handling of the foundation assets and other funds.

The members of the GNF board of directors are:

Marion Hammerl

President

Orsingen, Germany

Prof. Dr. Manfred Niekisch

Vice President

Frankfurt, Germany

Manfred Niekisch is Director of the Zoo “Zoologischer Garten” in Frankfurt.

Jörg Dürr-Pucher

Radolfzell, Germany

Ranveig Eckhoff

Berlin, Germany

Prof. Dr. Harald Kächele

Berlin, Germany

Harald Kächele is the national Chairman of the environmental association German Environmental Aid (Deutsche Umwelthilfe).

Dr. Andrew Venter

KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Andrew Venter is the Manager of the Wildlands Conservation Trust in South Africa.

The board of directors‘s decades of experience in international environmental protection and nature conservation, as well as in other environmental issues, is of great assistance to the work of the Global Nature Fund.

In Memorial of former Members

Prof. Dr. Gerhard Thielcke

(† 22 July 2007)

Honorary President

Radolfzell, Germany

Prof. Dr. Aitken Clark

(† 9 Aprl 2010)

Vice-President

Cambridge, Great Britain