With a legacy or by leaving part of your estate to OceanCare, you can ensure that our seas and marine animals have a future. Together, we can preserve this unique habitat for future generations.
With an inheritance
You can leave a part of your estate, the so-called free quota, to people or organisations that are close to your heart. If there are no heirs who are entitled to a compulsory share, you can appoint OceanCare as your sole beneficiary.
With a legacy
With a legacy or bequest, you can ensure that a specific amount, account or property is awarded to a particular person or an organisation. In the case of a legacy, spouses, children and parents are also entitled to a minimum share of the estate. We would be happy to send you our Guide to Wills booklet free of charge. You can order it by e-mail, telephone or by post.
In OceanCare’s Guide to Wills (in German only), we outline what to consider before making your last will and testament, what is needed for a will to be valid and how to appoint OceanCare as a beneficiary.
For questions and concerns Margarete Neuenschwander will be happy to help
Margarete Neuenschwander
Responsible inheritance
Phone: +41 (0)44 780 66 88
E-Mail: mneuenschwander@oceancare.org
In OceanCare’s Guide to Wills, we outline what to consider before making your last will and testament, what is needed for a will to be valid and how to appoint OceanCare as a beneficiary.
Urs and Ruth Moser, Porto Santo (Portugal)
Sigrid Lüber, Founder and President of OceanCare
Sigrid, you included OceanCare in your will in the form of a legacy.
Yes, I wanted to pass something on to the next generation through my legacy, because I was lucky enough to be able to live my vocation. Since making the bequest in my will in favour of OceanCare, I can look forward to my twilight years with a sense of serenity. After all, the popular saying about the last shirt that has no pockets matches the certainty that there is an afterlife – perhaps on earth, perhaps in heaven, but certainly in the vastness of the seas.
Why are legacies important for OceanCare?
Thanks to bequests, projects can be realised that are important but difficult to finance for an organisation of our size. For example, we were only able to start the SaveMoby project thanks to a substantial bequest. Without the commitment of a long-standing benefactor, this important instrument in whale protection, which is unique worldwide, would not have been possible. I am extremely grateful for this.
The system is based on solar-powered high-tech buoys equipped with underwater microphones. The system locates the sperm whales based on their typical clicking sounds and sends this data in real time to a central server. There it is compared with information from Marine Traffic, the leading provider for monitoring ship movements. If a ship is on a collision course with a whale, its captain is warned in time via a special radio channel so that he can change course and avoid the whale.
Do you still have questions about your will? If so, we would be glad to put you in touch with our legal expert Thierry Grote. He is happy to answer any brief questions at no cost to you or to OceanCare.
Thierry Grote, Mediator and Notary
Contact him by:
OceanCare
CH-8820 Waedenswil (Switzerland)
Credit Suisse, CH-8810 Horgen
IBAN: CH83 0483 5040 8744 0000 0
BIC: CRESCHZZ80A
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