ZEI supports Award: ZEI sponsors Rhino Conservation Awards

WETZLAR/Germany, 04.02.2015.

Since 2012 the annual Rhino Conservation Awards have served to recognise the remarkable individuals and organisations that protect South Africa's rhino population. This year, ZEISS has undertaken to sponsor the Awards.

Our products are made for the observation of nature's miracles, therefore it is our natural interest to conserve those miracles, says Dr. Winfried Scherle, Chief Executive Officer of Carl Zeiss Sports Optics.

The ZEISS Group has indicated its intention to maintain its sponsorship of the Awards. We are very excited about our future association with the Awards, Scherle continues. ZEISS in South Africa has been involved informally in rhino conservation for the last three to four years and has now made the decision to take structured action against poaching, committing to play an active role in Rhino Conservation. It is hoped that we can assist in creating more awareness about the plight of the rhino on a regional and global scale!

Carl Zeiss joins the existing sponsor, Ms Xiaoyang Yu, Founder Partner of China New Enterprise Investment (CNEI), a China focused growth capital fund, and one of the originators of the Awards. Founder of the Awards, Dr Larry Hansen, humbly thanks the ZEISS Group for its support, adding that its international footprint will dramatically improve the reach of the Awards as nature conservation is a global issue. Protecting species and their natural environments must become a universal goal.

The Awards are held in collaboration with the Department of Environmental Affairs of South Africa and the Game Rangers' Association of Africa (GRAA) - a non-profit organisation with a membership of over 1500 across Africa, many of whom are rangers active in anti-poaching activities. The GRAA is dedicated to the protection, conservation and restoration of Africa's biodiversity and wilderness for the benefit of present and future generations.

The Rhino Conservation Awards 2015 are to be held on the 27th of July, and will be attended by its sponsors' representatives, international guests and diplomats, members of the Department of Environmental Affairs, the South African National Parks Board, media, sponsors and organisations and individuals involved in rhino conservation. His Serene Highness Prince Albert II of Monaco, who is committed to the protection of species dangerously close to extinction through the support of his Foundation to various preservation projects, agreed to be Patron of the Rhino Conservation Initiative and the Rhino Conservation Awards.

Christin Rabitz

Carl Zeiss Sports Optics GmbH

Phone: +49 6441 404-146

Fax:

christin.rabitz@zeiss.com

About ZEISS

ZEISS is an internationally leading technology enterprise operating in the optics and optoelectronics industries. ZEISS develops and distributes lithography optics, measuring technology, microscopes, medical technology, eyeglass lenses, camera and cine lenses, binoculars and planetarium technology. With its solutions, the company constantly advances the world of optics and helps shape technological progress. The company is divided up into the six business groups Industrial Metrology, Microscopy, Medical Technology, Vision Care, Consumer Optics and Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology. ZEISS is represented in over 40 countries with around 30 production sites, over 50 sales and service locations and about 25 research and development facilities.

In fiscal year 2013/14 the company generated revenue approximating 4.3 billion euros with just under 25,000 employees. Founded in 1846 in Jena, the company is headquartered in Oberkochen, Germany. Carl Zeiss AG is the strategic management holding company that manages the ZEISS Group. The company is wholly owned by the Carl Zeiss Stiftung (Carl Zeiss Foundation).

Further information at www.zeiss.de/en

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