Photo · Christof Angst

Those who watch over nature, right alongside us.

The beaver doesn't live alone in the landscape. It depends on wetlands, forests, watercourses, and a whole network of species that share its habitat. Here are a few organizations whose work is especially close to our hearts — and with whom we share the same commitment to the living world.

A nature we protect together, with passion.

Reptiles, amphibians, mammals, wildlife as a whole — biodiversity conservation rests on a fabric of passionate, complementary organizations. BeaverWatch doesn't work in isolation: we compare notes, share data, and support those who watch over the other links in the ecosystem.

Wildlife mapping · Switzerland

info fauna

Centre suisse de cartographie de la faune (CSCF) & karch

The national data center for Swiss wildlife, info fauna collects, validates, and shares observations of mammals, reptiles, amphibians, insects, and other invertebrates from Neuchâtel, covering the whole of Switzerland.

Its databases are the scientific backbone of species protection in Switzerland: they feed the red lists, guide cantonal and federal policy, and allow organizations like ours to place field observations within a coherent national framework.

What we share: the conviction that rigorous, shared, and accessible naturalist data is the first step of any lasting protection.

Peri-urban nature park · Vaud

Parc naturel du Jorat

Above Lausanne, the largest forested area on the Swiss Plateau

The Jorat is nearly 4'500 hectares of forests, wet clearings, and headwater catchments just outside Lausanne. The peri-urban nature park protects this exceptional area and raises awareness among a wide public of the richness — often unsuspected — of peri-urban nature.

It is also a place where the beaver is recolonizing some streams, shaping wetlands and showing, almost right outside our windows, what a living river can become again. Raising awareness in the Jorat means raising awareness at the heart of French-speaking Switzerland's biodiversity.

What we share: the same care for forests, water, and riparian habitats, and the same wish to make nature legible to those who pass through it.

Turtle protection · Switzerland

SIGS · tortue.ch

Centre Emys, for turtle protection

Centre Emys has worked for decades on turtle protection — whether the European pond turtle, a native species that has become extremely rare in our ponds, or exotic turtles taken in after being abandoned. Its protection center in Chavornay takes in hundreds of animals every year.

The association carries out patient work on awareness-raising and reintroduction of the European pond turtle, Switzerland's only native turtle.

What we share: the defense of wetlands as a common good, and the idea that a discreet species can be a powerful ambassador for an entire ecosystem.

Wildlife care center · Chavornay

Erminea

Taking in, treating, and releasing injured wildlife

From its center in Chavornay, Erminea takes in injured or distressed wild animals, provides the care they need, and prepares them to return to their natural habitat.

Born from the commitment of animal welfare advocates, the association works with one simple conviction: a treated animal should, as soon as its condition allows, be returned to the wild.

What we share: caring for injured wildlife and releasing it back into its natural habitat.

Let's work together for Swiss nature.

Data sharing, joint projects, cross-awareness campaigns — if your association or foundation shares our commitment to biodiversity and aquatic habitats, get in touch.