To the final report of the committee for the evaluation of the Lower Oder Valley National Park (29.03.2011)

The board of the Nation­al Park Foun­da­tion Unteres Oder­tal, Dr. Ans­gar Vöss­ing, wel­comed the final report of the com­mit­tee for the eval­u­a­tion of the Low­er Oder Val­ley Nation­al Park from Jan­u­ary 2011 and the most­ly tar­get-ori­en­t­ed demands made on the Bran­den­burg state government.

For exam­ple, the com­mit­tee com­mis­sioned by the Min­istry for the Envi­ron­ment, Health and Con­sumer Pro­tec­tion (MUGV) through Europarc has come out in favor of

  • to post­pone pump­ing out of pold­ers 10 and A / B to mid-May at the earliest
  • to trans­fer the entire pold­er 10 into pro­tec­tion zone I and to cease pold­er management
  • to con­tin­u­ous­ly reduce fish­ing and water main­te­nance in the nation­al park
  • to stop pond management
  • car­ry out fur­ther ini­tial mea­sures for allu­vial forests
  • to instruct the Nation­al Park Asso­ci­a­tion in Zone I of the size of 2,000 to 2,500 hectares that it has long offered
  • To final­ly accel­er­ate the com­ple­tion of the cor­po­rate land con­sol­i­da­tion proceedings
  • Not to dis­mem­ber the already severe­ly frag­ment­ed nation­al park through fur­ther con­struc­tion mea­sures such as the B166 (new) or the expan­sion of the Hohen­saat­en-Friedrich­sthal water­way for coasters
  • to reduce the exemp­tions in Sec­tion 9 of the Nation­al Park Act.

These are all demands that the Nation­al Park Foun­da­tion Unteres Oder­tal has been mak­ing for many years. We look for­ward to your support!

How­ev­er, despite all the qual­i­ty of the final report, the com­mit­tee itself is heav­i­ly admin­is­tra­tive, i.e. main­ly made up of offi­cials from oth­er author­i­ties. Inde­pen­dent nature con­ser­va­tion orga­ni­za­tions such as NABU or BUND were not per­mit­ted. In this com­po­si­tion, the com­mit­tee can only imag­ine nature con­ser­va­tion as a state. The pri­vate law, vol­un­tary and non-prof­it nature con­ser­va­tion is only mar­gin­al­ly noticed, the twen­ty years of suc­cess­ful nature con­ser­va­tion work of the Nation­al Park Asso­ci­a­tion, the Nation­al Park Foun­da­tion and Inter­na­tion­al­park GmbH large­ly ignored, for exam­ple the con­fer­ences and con­gress­es of the Bran­den­burg Acad­e­my of Criewen Cas­tle, the excur­sion pro­gram with our sci­en­tif­ic part­ner orga­ni­za­tions, the chil­dren — and youth work in the wilder­ness school and the nation­al park year­book Unteres Oder­tal, to name just a few exam­ples. Even in the nation­al park, how­ev­er, nature con­ser­va­tion is by no means just a state responsibility.

Against this back­ground, it is under­stand­able when there is a call for more staff. But that would be at the expense of the oth­er large pro­tect­ed areas in Bran­den­burg. This only makes sense when the com­plete­ly unnec­es­sary con­flict between the admin­is­tra­tion and the Nation­al Park Asso­ci­a­tion has final­ly been resolved. Oth­er­wise, the admin­is­tra­tive staff, whether they are more or less, work their way off in the fight against the club, oth­er­wise unsuc­cess­ful­ly. Short­ly before Christ­mas, the admin­is­tra­tion has just lost four law­suits against the asso­ci­a­tion and the foun­da­tion. The respon­si­ble dis­trict court in Frank­furt / O has a com­plaint against it. just reject­ed on 03/18/2011. Despite the legal defeats, how­ev­er, as he announced in his in-house pos­til “Ade­bar”, admin­is­tra­tive man­ag­er Tre­ichel wants the open issues to be resolved in court. The Nation­al Park Foun­da­tion, how­ev­er, con­sid­ers a rea­son­able nego­ti­at­ed solu­tion that saves time, mon­ey and ener­gy to be more sensible.