Overview
- The federal agriculture and environment ministry said €6.4 million from the National Species Aid Program will go to the Förderverein Großtrappenschutz in Nennhausen through 2032.
- The project funds breeding support, reintroductions, habitat protection and closer monitoring to raise survival and expand the population.
- Current monitoring in March 2026 counted 305 birds across Havelländisches Luch and Belziger Landschaftswiesen in Brandenburg and Fiener Bruch and Zerbster Land in Saxony-Anhalt.
- In Germany the great bustard now occurs only in Brandenburg and Saxony-Anhalt.
- Officials link the species’ near-extinction to intensive farming and landscape fragmentation, and Brandenburg’s environment minister called the bird a messenger for the region’s natural landscapes.