page_title: Franz Weber (activist)
section_title: Campaigns
hierarchical_section_title: Franz Weber (activist) / Campaigns
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Cette plaque commémorative se trouve dans le village de Puidoux, au chemin de la Dame, dans le vignoble de Lavaux, en Suisse. Elle a été apposée en signe de reconnaissance, pour les deux initiatives populaires Sauvez Lavaux, acceptées par le peuple en 1977 et en 2005, qui ont contribué à protéger les vignobles de Lavaux. Le 28 juin 2007, les vignobles de Lavaux ont été inscrites au patrimoine mondial de l'UNESCO. L'inscription est la suivante&#160;: Depuis 1972, grâce à un travail acharné et persévérant Franz Weber avec le concours du peuple vaudois, a assuré la protection de ce merveilleux vignoble. Les vignerons de "Sauvez Lavaux" lui offre symboliquement cette vigne en signe de reconnaissance. Le 27 juillet 2007
context_page_description: Franz Weber was a Swiss environmentalist and animal welfare activist.
context_section_description: In the 1970s and 2000s, Franz Weber launched three cantonal popular initiatives for the complete protection of the Lavaux region and two of them directly succeeded. In 2007 the vineyard landscape of Lavaux was registered as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. One of the Foundation's first international campaigns in defence of animals was the fight against the yearly slaughters of  seals on the coast of Labrador in Canada, The campaign, which started in 1976, included a trip with French film actress Brigitte Bardot and 75 newspaper reporters to the Labrador seal hunting grounds. In 1983 the European Economic Community banned all importations of baby seal pelts into the EEC.
  In 1978, the Council of Europe in Strasbourg appealed to Franz Weber to save ancient Delphi in Greece from destruction by an American-Greek project of industrialization. Weber created the successful international movement, "Save Delphi" and within only a few months stopped the project. When, in 1986, Delphi is again threatened by industrialization  "Save Delphi" was successfully revived. In 1997, in recognition of his merits and campaigns, the city of Delphi named Weber Honorary Citizen and Protector of Delphi.
  In 1983, Weber battled against the destruction of the alluvial forests of the Danube between Hainburg and Vienna in Austria to build a hydro-electrical complex. His Foundation invited 40 European journalists to Vienna and to draw international attention to the project. On Christmas 1984 the Austrian government stopped the project and in 1995 Chancellor Franz Vranitzki decides to "offer the water forest region of the Danube to the coming generations as the first Austrian National Park".
  Also in 1983, parallel to the Danube campaign, Weber saved the turn-of-the century Grandhotel Giessbach on Lake Brienz near Interlaken from destruction by raising the funds to purchase the property. He then entrusted it to the Swiss People as a place of culture, of meeting and of rejuvenation.
  In 2008, a referendum initiated by Weber to end Swiss Air Force training flights over "tourist areas" (virtually the entire country) to reduce the "impact of noise pollution", was soundly defeated by a vote of 68.1%. Weber, who referred to the Air Force's newest jet fighter, the F/A-18 Hornet, as "oversized, ineffective, and ruinous to our country", proposed the use of simulators to replace air operations.
  On 12 March 2012, the "Franz Weber initiative" was accepted by 50.6 percent of voters. It aims to reduce urban sprawl by limiting the number of second homes (with a quota of twenty percent per commune).
  Also in 2012, the Franz Weber Foundation launched an international campaign against bullfighting. The campaign is called "Childhood without violence", and focuses on the Latinamerican countries that allow bullfights, and in particular draws attention to the effects on minors of witnessing bullfighting.
caption: Puidoux, (Chemin de la Dame)
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