sera has also prepared a great calendar for next year, with the help of the sera social media community. But this edition brings some changes: the sera annual calendar 2024 not only has an adapted design, but will also not be available free of charge for the first time. In Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Austria, Spain and Portugal, aquarium, terrarium and garden pond enthusiasts and those who want to become one can purchase the calendar with impressive photos of the sera community for one euro. All proceeds are donated 100% to species protection projects worldwide. sera not only bears the manufacturing, production and distribution costs, but also offsets the VAT, so that every single cent goes exactly to the places where it is needed.
Which projects are supported?
The following three wildlife conservation projects will each receive 20% of the proceeds:
1. Conservation of Goodeids – Goodeid Working Group (GWG
The GWG is an international association of private aquarists, zoos and institutes, which (among other things) is committed to the conservation of the endangered Mexican Goodeids. As part of the various projects of the GWG, the fish are not only bred, but also (already very successfully) reintroduced. The donation goes to the University of Morelia in Mexico and will be used 100% for species conservation and reintroduction projects of goodeids.
2. Establishment of breeding facilities for endangered freshwater fish in Vietnam – Cologne Zoological Garden
The second project is managed by the Cologne Zoological Garden. The focus of the species conservation project lies on the establishment of breeding stations for endangered freshwater fish in Vietnam. Professor Dr. Thomas Ziegler, head of the aquarium at the Cologne Zoological Garden and coordinator of conservation projects, has been passionately committed to nature and species conservation for decades.
3. Breeding and Protection Center for Amphibians – Aquazoo Löbbecke Museum Düsseldorf
Due to habitat loss, environmental pollution and chytrid fungi, which are deadly to amphibians, many hundreds of amphibian species are threatened with extinction worldwide, and some have already disappeared irreversibly. To prevent the extinction of further species, the Aquazoo Löbbecke Museum in Düsseldorf operates a breeding and species conservation station for amphibians. Species threatened with extinction are bred here in order to preserve them for future generations.
What happens to the remaining 40% of donations?The remaining 40% of the proceeds will be donated to various regional projects spread throughout Europe.
Among other things, the purchase of the calendar supports an Italian project that is committed to preserving the last remaining wild Adriatic sturgeons (Acipenser naccari). Among other things, animals are regularly bred and released into the wild in order to support and increase the wild population.
The "Acuario de Zaragoza" is also located on the Iberian Peninsula, more precisely in Spain. Not only are various endangered fish species, some of which are already extinct in the wild, propagated here and thus preserved for posterity, but various national projects are also supported that work to preserve endangered Spanish biotopes.
Donation campaign is geographically limited
The remaining 40% of the proceeds will be donated to various regional projects spread throughout Europe.
Among other things, the purchase of the calendar supports an Italian project that is committed to preserving the last remaining wild Adriatic sturgeons (Acipenser naccari). Among other things, animals are regularly bred and released into the wild in order to support and increase the wild population.
The "Acuario de Zaragoza" is also located on the Iberian Peninsula, more precisely in Spain. Not only are various endangered fish species, some of which are already extinct in the wild, propagated here and thus preserved for posterity, but various national projects are also supported that work to preserve endangered Spanish biotopes.
Donation campaign is geographically limited