NFI Newsletter
NFI Newsletter
The NFI Newsletter provides regular information about the activities of the Naturefriends movement as well as news from the areas of sustainable development, nature & environmental protection, climate protection & climate justice and EU politics.
Find an overview of past issues here:
- NFI News 12 / 2024 - Look back and Season's Greetings ~ Your Christmas Tree grows in Africa!
- NFI News 11 / 2024 - PhotoChallenge ~ Global Naturefriends Days Report ~ Saving alpine huts and trails together!
- NFI News 10/2024 - Pilot projects across borders ~ Your Christmas Tree Grows in Africa ~ In conversation with Naturefriends
- NFI News 9/2024 - Naturefriends for peace ~ Only sustainable tourism promotes a culture of peace!
- NFI News 7/2024 - News from the Naturefriends Climate Fund + NFI PhotoChallenge 2024
- NFI News 6/2024 - EU Nature Restoration Law: A victory for people & nature! + NFI PhotoChallenge 2024: Your adventure by bus, train and bike!
- NFI News 5/2024 - EU elections 2024 – An appeal by NFI President Manfred Pils + Citizens want a law to restore nature
- NFI News 4/2024 - EU elections 2024: EU Parliament Scoreboard + Climate protection recognised as a human right
- NFI News 3/2024 1 Euro for climate justice + NF House GRAN PINO needs support! + Interview with Mamadou Mbodji/Vice-president NFI
- NFI News 2/2024 - 20 years Naturefriends House Petit Mbao in Dakar + Global Naturefriends Days 2024: Nature & Solidarity
- NFI News 1/2024 - 6,658 Euros for Climate Fund Projects!
- NFI News 12/2023 Your Christmas tree grows in Africa + How personalities shape sustainable tourism: Srebrenica - City of Hope
- NFI News 11/2023 - COP 28 & climate justice! + Your Christmas tree grows in Africa + The winning pictures of the respect_NFI PhotoChallenge 2023
- NFI News 10/2023 - Climate Justice for the future! + These were the Global Naturefriends Days 2023 + Your Christmas Tree Grows in Africa!
- NFI News 9/2023 Naturefriends bring their houses on a climate track + Start of Naturefriends Tree Sponsorships + respect_NFI Photo Challenge
- NFI News 7/2023 respect_NFI PhotoChallenge 2023: your adventure by bus, train and bike! + There is light in Benin's Kpotomey village!
- NFI News 6/2023 Kick-off for tree sponsorships in Senegal and The Gambia + 5 tips for a sustainable holiday
- NFI News 5/2023 - Climate delicacies at NF Houses + The importance of restoring nature in Europe + Lighting up the village of Kpotomey
- NFI News 4/2023 - Climate justice is everybodys business! + Get involved now! Tree sponsorships in Senegal and The Gambia
- NFI News 3/2023 - IPCC warns of escalation of climate crisis +++ Strong Women in Senegal +++ Lighting up the village of Kpotomey (Benin)
- NFI News 2/2023 - Ukraine war changes Europe's energy economy + Nature and Solidarity – Join the Global Naturefriends Days 2023! +
- NFI News 1/2023 -Tree Sponsorships - together for climate justice! + Hiking for peace + Milestone for the conservation of biodiversity
- 12/16/2022 - NFI News 12/2022 - Your Christmas tree grows in Africa!
- 11/30/2022 - NFI News 11/2022 - Your Christmas tree grows in Africa + Europe's forests threatened by fires + Naturefriends Germany adopt peace resolution
- 10/31/2022 - NFI News 10/2022 - Energy transition for an independent, ecological, and social Europe! + Nature & Solidarity! Global Naturefriends Days 2022 +
- 09/30/2022 - NFI News 09/2022 - Rethinking tourism! + Symposium "Human Rights & Climate Change in Tourism" + EU wastes more food than it imports
- 07/31/2022 - NFI News 07/2022 – France failed to change course on Green Deal + Tourism between war and peace + Environmental protection reduces cancer rate
- 06/30/2022 - NFI News 06/2022 - Sustainable travel is easy + EU Nature Restoration Law + Placing citizens at the heart of the green and just transition +
- 05/31/2022 - NFI News 05/2022 - A fruit trees nursery for Farako (Mali) + Renewable energies versus nature conservation? + Global Naturefriends Days 2022 +
- 04/29/2022 - NFI News 04/2022 - The Naturefriends House Petit Mbao needs our help! + Move4Nature + solidarity with Ukraine refugees +
- 03/31/2022 - NFI News 03/2022 - Stop the war! NFI statement on the Russian invasion of Ukraine + No postponement of agro-reform + Groundwater at risk +
- 03/01/2022 - NFI News 02/2022 - Stop the war - Naturefriends for peace! + Call for effective EU corporate accountability legislation +
- 01/31/2022 - NFI News 01/2022 - No Greenwashing of Nuclear Power and Fossil Gas in the EU Taxonomy! + Naturefriends Houses in the spotlight! +
- 12/21/2021- NFI News 12/2021 - Your Christmas tree grows in Africa + Restoring nature in the EU cannot wait! +
- 11/30/2021 - NFI News 11/2021 - Your Christmas tree grows in Africa + COP26 failed to deliver + Tourism between economic necessity and climate change +
- 10/30/2021 - NFI News 10/2021 - Climate protection now – act before it is too late! + Review Global Naturefriends Days 2021 + Your Christmas tree grows in Africa
- 09/30/2021 - NFI News 09/2021 - World Tourism Day: For a tourism without losers + Investment in nature needed + Young Naturefriends active for climate justice
- 07/30/2021 - NFI News 07/2021 - Ecosystems help create value + EU’s “Fit for 55” unfit and unfair + Do not undermine corporate due diligence! +
- 06/30/2021 - NFI News 06/2021 - 1,000 trees for Senegal + Women's power for sustainable tourism + binding targets to protect wildlife & people demanded +
- 05/31/2021 - NFI News + Climate change causes enormous costs + More conservation areas, but quality needs improvement + World Environment Day +
- 04/30/2021 - NFI News + Respect Nature - experience more sustainably + EU Citizens' Platform on the Future of Europe + European Year of Rail +
- 03/31/2021 - NFI News + 931 million tonnes of food waste every year + virtual trip to Senegal and the Gambia – a review +
- 02/26/2021 - NFI News + SDG Watch Europe monitoring report + Over half a million people tell the EU to hold business accountable + The respect_NFI travel puzzle +
- 01/29/2021 - NFI News + Biodiversity against pandemics + Fruit trees for northern Senegalese villages + In conversation with Ursula Vetter/Vice President NFI +
- 12/21/2020 - NFI News + NFI Christmas campaign: Donate fruit trees for a good future! + Virtual Journey to Senegal & Gambia + FAIRtravel Christmas bakery +
- 11/30/2020 - NFI News + Naturefriends, a driving force for a sustainable global development + Interactive advent calendar + Christmas special: donate fruit trees +
- 10/31/2020 - NFI News + New Climate Fund project ready to start + Virtual journey into the Landscape of the Year + Europe's nature in serious, continuing decline +
- 09/30/2020 - NFI News + For a human asylum policy + World Tourism Day: COVID 19 – time to transform tourism! + 400,000 deaths in Europe due to air pollution +
- 07/31/2020 - NFI News + EU recovery money should fund green economy, not pulluters + Covid-19 & solidarity in Senegal/The Gambia + Save Zio river in Togo! +
- 06/30/2020 - NFI News + 125 years Naturefriends – Take part in the first Global Naturefriends Day! + Post-Corona reconstruction must strengthen civil society +
- 05/31/2020 - NFI News + Europeans want a green and just recovery + Naturefriends ClimateFund: Interview with Moussa Traoré/President of Naturefriends Mali +
- 04/30/2020 - NFI News + A sustainable way out of the Corona crisis + Naturefriends ClimateFund is turning into a success story + 125 years Naturefriends
- 03/31/2020 - NFI News + Mastering the crisis in solidarity!
- 02/28/2020 - NFI News + Two years of Landscape of the Year Senegal/The Gambia + The NFI climate fund is setting an example + 125 years Naturefriends +
- 01/31/2020 - NFI News + 125 years Naturefriends + EUBudget4climate: no fossil fuels + Human rights & the role of tour guides +
- 12/17/2019 - NFI News + NFI christmas special: donate a brick to Finkolo (Mali) + 125 activities for sustainable development +
- 11/29/2019 - NFI News + #adventforclimate + NFI christmas special: donate a brick to Finkolo (Mali) + 125 activities for sustainable development +
- 10/31/2019 - NFI News + fossil free politics! + app for the prevention of food waste + mountain guide training in Iran +
- 09/30/2019 - NFI News + Green 10 reject „One in, one out“ principle + Climate protection in tourism: flight shaming is not enough! + NF Climate Fund supports Mali
- 07/31/2019 - NFI News + A Green Deal for Europe? + Economic growth and environmental sustainability incompatible + Youth Exchange Janjanbureh/Koungheul +
- 06/28/2019 - NFI News + Travelling to save the world? + New Climate Fund project in Mali + Outdoor against Cancer +
- 05/29/2019 - NFI News + European Citizens’ Initiative Stop Tax Exemption for Kerosene! + News from the Landscape of the Year +
- 04/30/2019 - NFI News + European Elections 2019: What Naturefriends should expect from future MEPs! + Where do EU political groups stand on climate change? +
- 03/31/2019 - NFI News + Europe for all + Guinea: Improved stoves for a better future + Visiting the Landscape of the Year +
- 03/01/2019 - NFI News + European Parliament demands nature-friendly farming + Naturefriends Czechia celebrate 25 years + News from the Landscape of the Year +
- 02/01/2019 - NFI News + The first year of the Landscape of the Year Senegal/The Gambia: major succcesses, great commitment and many future plans! +
- 12/18/2018 - NFI News + Human rights matter – also in tourism! + Your gift for more climate justice + Camp for young mountaineers +
- 11/30/2018 - NFI News + A „green deal” for transport in Europe? + Naturefriends Sports for All + Your gift for more climate justice +
- 10/31/2018 - NFI News + #ProtectWater + We just don´t buy it! + Ecocity Forum 2018 +
- 09/28/2018 - NFI News + Green 10 European Parliament Elections Manifesto + Petition "Clear up insect deaths" + New NFI website +
- 08/06/2018 - NFI News + Human rights in tourism practice + Rich countries struggle with fulfilling SDGs + More commitment against plastic waste required +
- 06/29/2018 - NFI News + Leave sand castles, not plastic! + Meaningful mountain tours in Nepal + News from the Landscape of the Year
- 05/30/2018 - NFI News + Current Project of Naturefriends Climate Fund + Naturefriends Sports for All + Centre for Environment and Education opened in Senegal
- 05/23/2018 - NFI News + Let´s stay connected! + Bleiben wir in Kontakt! + Restons en contact!
- 04/30/2018 - NFI News + Landscape of the Year 2018/2019: Moving ahead at full speed + Open letter to European Climate Commissioner Cañete
- 03/29/2018 - NFI News + Hiking in the Landscape of the Year + Environmental groups against German coal industry lobby + Lippe is River Landscape of the Year
- 02/28/2018 - NFI News + Tour d´Horizon + NGOs demand more money for environmental protection in EU +
- 02/01/2018 - NFI News + Opening Landscape of the Year Senegal/The Gambia + Tour d´Horizon
- 11/30/2017 - NFI News + COP23 Protect the climate + 23.5 million climate refugees in 2016 + Naturefriends Austria for Nepal
- 10/31/2017 - NFI News + Living climate justice! In solidarity towards a better future! + Nature and biodiversity conservation in the Landscape of the Year
- 10/02/2017 - NFI News + World Tourism Day 2017: Tourists go home !? + Naturefriends talk: Henk Schaaf (NIVON) + News from the Landscape of the Year
- 07/31/2017 - NFI News + Public consultation on European citizens´ initiative + Naturefriends talk: Günter Abraham, Managing Director of Naturefriends Austria
- 06/30/2017 - NFI News + An alternative vision for Europe + Community Based Tourism + Informations from the Landscape of the Year
- 06/01/2017 - NFI News ++ Landscape of the Year Senegal/Gambia: Heading for new shores! ++ NEW: Naturefriends talk: Urs Wüthrich-Pelloli
- 04/28/2017 - NFI News ++ Tour d' Horizont Senegal/Gambia +++ Crowdfunding Naturefriends House Srebrenica +++ 1 Million Birdhouses
- 03/31/2017 - NFI News ++ Tourism needs to transform ++ The Europe we want ++ Living Land
- 02/28/2017 - NFI News: +++ European Action Week Against Racism +++ End fossil fuel subsidies +++
- 02/01/2017 - NFI News: Naturefriends Climate Fund +++ International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development +++
- 11/30/2016 - NFI News: Best of Activity of the Week +++ EU & sustainable development +++ CETA environment promises are a dead letter"
- 10/31/2016 - NFI News: EEB Annual Conference 2016 +++ COP 22: Camp Climate +++ IYNF: new Secretary General
- 09/30/2016 - NFI News +++ Naturefriends say No to CETA +++ Europe must put people and planet first
- 08/31/2016 - NFI News +++ Green 10 priorities for Bratislava Informal Summit +++ Coalburning EU countries make neighbours sick
- 08/01/2016 - NFI News 07/2016 - Olympic Games in Rio