Das Projekt "Konservierung und Entwicklung der Natur der Federsee-Landscaft" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von Bezirksstelle für Naturschutz und Landschaftspflege Tübingen durchgeführt. After a management plan for the entire Federsee basin and a hydrological study have been produced, the aim is to rehumidify areas now in agriculture use in order to regenerate humid and wet meadows on fen substrates and to reduce, or even completely halt, the oxidation of the peat. In order to obtain a coherent block of land on which to carry out these measures, about 60 hectares of land will be bought and, using an official rural land ownership consolidation procedure, swapped against sections inside the site where necessary. A run-down dam across the watercourse draining out of the Federsee basin will be rebuilt and drainage ditches will be closed, moved or have their water levels raised. Recurring management measures to keep areas open for the benefit of corncrakes, snipes, cranes and many others will be launched with LIFE funds and continued after the end of the project by the conservation authorities. A more ecologically sensitive maintance of drainage ditches by the competent bodies will be promoted. The project also has a socio-economic slant. The site attracts 150000 visitors a year and an awareness campaign will point out to the local community that restoration of the natural heritage should impact positively on this tourism. To try and avoid recurring management becoming a permanent financial burden, the beneficiary will investigate if straw from the Streuwiesen could be used in energy production and will collaborate with an EU LEADER programme to see if extensive land use can become economically viable. The 3300 hectare Federsee site ist the largest mire in southwest Germany. Starting as an Ice Age glacier lake, it has subsequently developed all the stadia of the mire cycle, from an open, eutrophic relict lake through extensive fen complexes with calcareous marshes and bog woodland to raised bog. The Federsee reedlands host an extremly rich avifauna with 105 regularly breeding species including corncrake, marsh harrier and bluethroat. The main problems besetting this internationally famed natural gem are falling water levels in the lake, agricultural intensification and drainage activities and abandonment of the traditional 'Streuwiesen' exploitation (ie mowing of very humid meadows dominated by sedges, to produce straw for use in stables). Building on numerous past protection efforts undertaken in the core zone, the LIFE project will now focus on the restoration of the outer parts of the site.
Das Projekt "Hochmoore und Lebensraeume fuer den Wachtelkoenig im suedlichen Chiemgau" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Landesentwicklung und Umweltfragen durchgeführt. Post-glacial terrestrialization of the southern part of the original Chiemsee lake left behind a landscape (southern Chiemgau) which even today is still rich in natural heritage, boasting considerable expanses of raised bog, bog woodland and fen, all of them habitat types which have become rare. The fens are dominated by bog woodlands with swamp forest characteristics, reedbeds and 'Streuwiesen' (very humid hay meadows characterized by sedges). These Streuwiesen are prime corncrake (Crex crex) habitat- between 10 and 20 calling males have been recorded in the project area. As the corncrake is globally threatened with extinction, while the raised bogs have been damaged by decades of peat digging, action is required for these first and foremost, in spite of the sites rich inventory of other vegetation types and rare species. This had already become apparent during an earlier LIFE project, successfully carried out here between 1994 and 1996. The current project builds on its predecessors experience and completes measures already begun at the 6 subsites. To regenerate raised bogs, on land aquired - in part - by the previous project, local hydrology will be improved by closing drainage ditches, flooding old peat diggings and clearing birch thickets. Habitats for meadow-breeding birds where corncrakes occur will be increased by extensifying agricultural land use and converting arable land to pasture; parts will be flooded to provide expanses of shallow water for waders. Abandoned, overgrown Streuwiesen, shunned by the corncrakes, must be cleared. These works will be carried out by local farmers, school pupils, scouts and even prisoners from a nearby jail. This will also presuppose purchase of about 60 ha land. In order to ensure lasting preservation of corncrake habitats, farmers will be given advice about the grant offered by the Bavarian agricultural extensification programme (Regulation 2078/92/EEC). Finally, local inhabitants and the many tourists should also be able to enjoy the fruits of the LIFE project: 3 observation platforms, and a boardwalk crossing a raised bog, will be built to allow inspection of the habitats.
Das Projekt "Bewahrung und Entwicklung von Brutraeumen des Crex crex nahe der Niederelbe (Crex crex = Wachtelkoenig)" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von Niedersächsisches Umweltministerium durchgeführt. The LIFE project's prime target is to improve and expand the breeding habitat for the corncrake, in order to stabilize the population and, in as much possible, increase it. This target is to be met through land purchase (about 30 ha) with an aim to making coherent blocks out of the sections already aquired in the past. Arable land purchased is to be converted back to grassland and farmed extensively. Once coherent blocks have been assembled, it will be possible to improve the hydrology of large areas of meadow behind the dykes by restoring year-round high groundwater levels and allowing floodwaters to back up in winter and cover the land. In turn, this will lead to the regeneration of species-rich, extensively-used marshland and to the preservation and development of habitat structures in the transition zone between land and water. With its specific focus on corncrakes, the project complements on-going LIFE projects upstream along the Elbe in Niedersachsen, Brandenburg and Sachsen-Anhalt very nicely. With its river floodplain marshes, tidal flats and expanses of open water, the Elbe estuary in Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony) is of great value for nature conservation. The calcareous, brackish-water and saltwater marsh subsoils support a typical meadow-based livestock husbandry and provide habitat for a broad range of bird species, 20 of which are listed on Annex I of the Birds Directive. These include, besides the globally threatened corncrake (Crex crex), the bittern (Botaurus stellaris), the ruff (Philomachus pugnax) and the short-eared owl (Asio flammeus), among others. 19 calling corncrakes males have been identified in the project area, equivalent to about 20 per cent of Niedersachsen's total population. The corncrakes nest both in the meadows on the foreland of the Elbe river dykes as in those behind the dykes. These inland meadows in particular are effected by drainage, intensification, ploughing up of grass, removal of important habitat structures and mowing which is done too early in the season. In response, implementation of a nature conservation programme for the lower Elbe has been going on for quite a few years now, with considerable investment in land purchase and improvements to the hydrology of the meadows.
Das Projekt "Feuchtgebiets-Habitat-Management im Naturpark Schaalsee mitbesonderer Beruecksichtigung der Arten Rohrdommel und Wachtelkoenig" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von Biosphärenreservatsamt Schaalsee-Elbe durchgeführt. Smack on the former Iron Curtain between Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Schleswig-Hostein is the 16200 ha Schaalsee nature park, and it is the dead quiet engendered by this very location for many years, which has allowed the many habitat types and their characteristic species to survive in this nature park. Much of Schaalsee, part of the west Mecklenburg lake and hill country, consists of oligotrophic lakes, fens, swamps and mires interpenetrated by woodlands and grasslands, which provides a habitat for a wide range of birds. With the disappearance of the Iron Curtain, the area was opened to change and is now threatened by rising recreational pressure, construction of traffic infrastructure and intensifying agriculture and hunting. Consequently, a detailed management plan, extending to parts of Schleswig-Holstein as well, was drawn up with financial support from the Federal German government. The LIFE project intends to implement part of the management plan and focuses on two specific subsites: the lake called Roeggeliner See with its reedbeds, humid fringes and adjoining Kuhlrader Moor mire, as well as the Kneese/Sandfeld zone, a mire ecosystem along the Kneeser Bek stream, with largely undisturbed alder swamp forests. The target is to rehumidify important areas in both subsites with the help of hydrological engineering works, and to reduce the eutrophication of the Roeggeliner See and Kneeser Bek caused by nutrient seepage from agriculture and untreated wastewater from surrounding villages. To do this, drainage ditches around the lake are to be closed, thereby rehumidifying some 200 ha grassland. By reducing nutrient inputs, the brook which brings water from its catchment area into the lake, will be renaturalized. Buffer strips are to be laid out and fences put up to protect sensitive areas from livestock. In the fen lowlands along the Kneeser Bek, drainage ditches need to be closed to rehumidify 150 ha while the stream itself is to be restored to its original natural state over a length of 3 km. Here too, plans are to lay out buffer strips and put up fences. These measures will benefit the bittern (Botaurus stellaris) and the corncrake (Crex crex), priority birds for funding under LIFE. To keep recreational pressure at both subsites within reasonable limits, visitor movements will be gently guided by building two observation platforms plus information facilities. The project is to be carried out in the Schaalsee Nature Park, an Important Bird Area. Following an already existing management plan, it is intended to undertake re-naturisation measures at two locations with wide-ranging, naturally formed and richly structured biotope complexes offering a wide varity and intensity of habitats. Both locations accomodate a rich variety of species of animals and plants particular to wetland habitats. The result of these measures shall be a re-hydration and extension of bog and marsh land including the re-naturisation of flowing watercourses. A further outco
Das Projekt "Bewertung des Beitrags nationaler und internationaler Naturschutzvorhaben in Deutschland zur Erhaltung stark gefaehrdeter Vogelarten auf landwirtschaftlich extensiv genutzten Flaechen (z.B. Wachtelkoenig): Zielkonflikte und Loesungswege" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von Landesbund für Vogelschutz in Bayern e.V. durchgeführt. Landwirtschaftlich extensiv genutzte Flaechen haben fuer verschiedene Vogelarten unersetzliche Bedeutung; z.B. fuer die stark gefaehrdeten Vogelarten. Der Wachtelkoenig, eine europaweit stark gefaehrdete Vogelart, hat viele seiner bedeutendsten Vorkommen in Deutschland in Gebieten, in denen nationale oder internationale Naturschutzvorhaben durchgefuehrt wurden oder werden (Naturschutzgrossvorhaben), F+E-Vorhaben, Life-Projekt). In fuenf dieser Projektgebiete sollen die Wachtelkoenigbestaende hinsichtlich ihrer Biologie, ihres Bruterfolges und ihrer Raumnutzung genau untersucht werden. Dabei werden gleichzeitig naturschutzrelevante Daten ueber andere europaweit gefaehrdete Wiesenvogelarten sowie (Im NP Unteres Odertal) den ebenfalls in Europa prioritaeren Seggenrohrsaenger erfasst. Aus den Ergebnissen sind Anforderungen an eine ideale 'wachtelkoenigfreundliche' Bewirtschaftung landwirtschaftlicher Flaechen (insbesondere Feuchtwiesen) abzuleiten, die dann in einem zweiten Schritt mit den allgemeinen Zielen und Massnahmen der Naturschutzvorhaben (Pflege- und Entwicklungsplanung) abzugleichen sind. Angestrebt werden allgemeingueltige Richtlinien fuer eine nachhaltige Flaechenbewirtschaftung, die die Erhaltung des Wachtelkoenigs ebenso gewaehrleistet wie die Erreichung anderer Naturschutzziele. Neben der Optimierung der Pflege- und Entwicklungsmassnahmen sollen anhand der nationalen und internationalen Naturschutzvorhaben auch die Kosten und Gewinnverluste abgeschaetzt werden, die eine artenschutzgerechte Flaechenbewirtschaftung gegenueber der gaengigen landwirtschaftlichen Praxis verursacht.
Das Projekt "Grundlagenuntersuchungen fuer ein flaechenschutzorientiertes Artenschutzprogramm fuer Wiesenbrueter" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von Universität Heidelberg, Zoologisches Institut I durchgeführt. Ermittlung der Minimalareale unter Beruecksichtigung der Biotopisolation und Lebensraumeigenschaften der Wiesenbrueter Bekassine und Braunkehlchen, Wachtelkoenig, Schafstelze, Wiesenpieper, Feldschwirl und Grauammer. Ermittlung geeigneter Pflegemassnahmen fuer Wiesenbrueterlebensraeume und Umsetzung des gewonnenen Erkenntnisse in einem Landschaftspflegeprojekt.
Das Projekt "Wachtelkoenig" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von BirdLife Österreich - Gesellschaft für Vogelkunde durchgeführt. Ziel: Sicherung der derzeitigen Wachtelkoenigpopulation. Erste Schritte zum Wiederaufbau einer Population im Machland, Sammlung und Erfahrung fuer eine Ausweitung der Wachtelkoenigschutzaktivitaeten.
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