The Fraport AG Environmental Fund
Over the past few years, the Fraport Environment Fund has become a permanent feature in the Frankfurt/Rhine-Main region. In this way, Fraport AG also meets its responsibility to make a permanent contribution to environmental protection. The Fraport Environment Fund was established in 1997. More than 370 different individual projects have been sponsored in the region since then.
In addition to the ordinary projects in the areas of wildlife conservation and environmental protection, the fund has also sponsored projects in the fields of environmental education and ecological research.
Examples of projects that have been sponsored by the Fraport Environment Fund include reclamation of school playgrounds, creation of the Rhine-Main Regional Park, expansion of a bird sanctuary, protection of wild orchards and campaigns to support bat and butterfly populations:
Fraport AG has provided a total of €20.1 million for projects via its environment fund.
Examples of projects that have been sponsored by the Fraport Environmental Fund include:
The Rhine-Main Regional Park
Wildlife Conservation and Environmental Protection
Environmental Education Projects
Ecological Research
The Rhine-Main Regional Park
The Rhine-Main Regional Park (Regionalpark Rhein-Main), founded in 1994, is by far the largest environmental project supported by Fraport. The goal of this project is to connect individual "green" islands throughout the Frankfurt/Rhine-Main region into a continuous large network of recreational areas, playgrounds, bike paths, and hiking trails. The Regional Park represents not only an important contribution toward the preservation of existing biotopes in the airport's neighbourhood, but also a substantial increase in leisure and recreational value for the region's citizens.
More than 70 kilometers of Regional Park - routes and more than 100 individual projects have been financed since 1994, at total cost of more than €30 million. Fraport has been the main contributor to the project.
Plans call for creation of a 450-kilometer network of cycling and hiking trails throughout the Regional Park area. Two examples of projects already completed include:
- A cycling path spanning the entirety of Frankfurt was one of the Regional Park's first projects to be completed.
- In the neighboring city of Offenbach am Main a similar project has created hiking and cycling paths that surroundthe city.
Project examplesinclude various playgrounds for children throughout the region:
Wildlife Conservation and Environmental Protection
In Central Europe, flood meadows are considered to be the most endangered habitats. Fraport AG supports the Riedstädter flood meadow project.
Flood meadows near the local community of Riedstadt are being reclaimed. The project currently encompasses a little more than 45 hectares. The meadows have an incalculable value for local recreation and green tourism in the region.
Environmental Education Projects
Fraport provides financial support for more than fourty school and kindergarten projects.
Examples include:
In addition, support was also provided for exhibitions, environmental seminars, informational signs in wildlife conservation areas, and setting up teaching trails.
Before After
Further project in the field of environmental education:
Since the 1st April 2005, a new forest ranger of fraport supports schools and kindergartens to implement forest and environmental excursions.
Mrs. Habeck, forest ranger and environmental educationalist.
Ecological Research
Project: "Taunus Flora"
The 1992 UN Conference in Rio de Janeiro adopted a Charter on the protection and preservation of the biodiversity on Earth which is heavily threatened by human influences.
The Department of Botany at the Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe University in Frankfurt has started implementing this resolution in concrete form in cooperation with the Taunus Botanical Working Group and is going to document the changes in the landscape using the example of the Taunus flora.
In addition to a detailed inventory of species in spatially limited habitats and grid fields, the project is also establishing permanent landscape ecology observation areas for biomonitoring. The data collected permits statements with regard to landscape changes over a longer period of time and can be used to develop proposals on how best to care for wildlife conservation areas.
Fraport AG provided financial support for the realization of this project in the amount of €100,000.
Application
Applications must be made in writing; they should include a detailed project description and a cost analysis and should be compliant to the funding guidelines:
Funding Guidelines 
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Please contact us if you require additional information:
Fraport AG Public Affairs
Rainer Gomolluch
D-60547 Frankfurt am Main
Phone: +49 69 690 – 71777
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