Dr. Elke Gröning supports a number of conservation organizations in her native country Germany, including: 1. "Foundation Pro Biodiversity = Stiftung Pro Artenvielfalt". 2. "Vogelschutz-Komitee e. V.", 3. "World Wildlife Fund For Nature". She is a sustaining member of the "Museum Heineanum", Halberstadt, Germany, which includes a project center to protect the Red Kite (Milvus milvus) in Germany..
Elke has participated in numerous exhibitions in Germany, and published many of her pictures in popular and scientific journals and books. In 2018 she has written her own book "Gröning's picture cabinet" with a selection of 127 pictures of animals.Elke uses paleontological congresses, excursions and expeditions for studying the fauna and flora of the visited regions in particular South America, Africa and Australia, because these three continents were parts of a former super-continent named "Gondwana" in the history of our planet. Many of Elke's pictures therefore show species from this region of the world.
"We are living in the 6th mass extinction event in earth's history, caused by ourselves. To slow down this development, wildlife artists can contribute with their abilities by engaging in conservation projects. " Elke has a special interest for drawing and painting recently vanished species such as (Thylacine - Thylacinus cynocephalus, Laughing Owl - Sceloglaux albifacies and others) as well as endangered and critically endangered species (Rüppell's Vulture - Gyps rueppellii, Takahe - Porphyrio hochstetteri, Kakapo - Strigops habroptilus, Sumatran Rhinoceros - Dicerorhinus sumatrensis and others), to call the public's attention to the critical status of many extant species. European or Eurasian Wolf - Canis lupus lupus
The Family Park Sottrum, Germany, is an institution for education and an information center about environmental care and nature preservation. Many special exhibitions were arising there, for example "Our Amphibians - Diversity and Care" or "The Wolf in Germany today".
She also participates in many special conservation related exhibitions held in special venues such as natural history museums, university museums and the Ornithological Museum Heineanum, Germany. Examples include: "Species and Diversity = Art und Vielfalt", Natural History Museum Magdeburg: Special exhibition "MoVo = Modern Bird Pictures", Museum Heineanum, Halberstadt:. Organizer and performer of limited exhibitions, such as GeoMuseum, Clausthal University of Technology: - "Southern Africa Excursion", - "Fabulous Creatures", - "Reef Animals".
