Wise strategies from the Presiding Committee of EuroNatur
The Presiding Committee of the EuroNatur Foundation is composed of six members serving on an honorary basis. Its tasks are the strategic direction, approval of budget plans and the annual financial statement.The Board supervises the work of the Executive Director.
Prof. Dr. Thomas Potthast - President
„It is through cooperation with local civil society actors that EuroNatur fosters the idea of a peaceful and unified Europe. Assuring fair access to Nature for today's and future generations is a central challenge of our time.“
Dr. Anna-Katharina Wöbse - Vice president
"The European natural heritage is not a theory. It connects us: EuroNatur is practice-orientated and strengthens solidarity between very different people who stand up for nature and the environment every day,"
Prof. Dr. Hubert Weiger - Member of the Board
“In founding EuroNatur the former chairman of the Federal BUND organisation, Prof. Dr. Gerhard Thielcke, created a nature conservation organisation which set itself the central task of surmounting in a positive sense the many national borders dividing Europe. I, too, see it as an essential task of national organisations to take part in work at the international level.”
Jörg Nitsch - Member of the board
”I have been following EuroNatur's activities with lively interest from its founding years. I am very keen on the cross-border approach to nature conservation and as member of its board I want to give my active support to EuroNatur for their development and implementation of projects to protect the unique natural world of Europe.”
Prof. Dr. Hannes Knapp - Member of the Board
As one of the fathers of the GDR’s national park programme, Hannes Knapp is fully aware of the importance of valuable protected areas. “At the time of German reunification, there was the dictum of ‘family silver of German unity’. The primeval beech forests in Romania are the ‘golden treasure of the European Union’. This valuable treasure needs to be conserved, not exploited!”
Dr Elsa Nickel - Member of the board
"We need to think about nature conservation in Europe as a whole and support each other wherever we can. Well-managed nature conservation from Brussels is crucial if we want to overcome the biodiversity and climate crises."