On the occa­sion of the 10th anniver­sary of the only Ger­man flood­plain nation­al park
Unteres Oder­tal and the Nation­al Park Foun­da­tion Unteres Oder­tal is the anniver­sary pho­to book
“Low­er Oder Val­ley Nation­al Park Sym­pho­ny — A jour­ney through the sea­sons of the year”

just appeared.

The 152-page illus­trat­ed book in the for­mat 26 x 24 cm pub­lished by Ans­gar Vöss­ing and Gün­ter Blutke, for which 20 pho­tog­ra­phers and nature con­ser­va­tion­ists pro­vid­ed the pho­tos, shows the beau­ties of nature on both sides of the Oder in the Inter­na­tion­al Park Unteres Oder­tal. It is a dec­la­ra­tion of love to a land in the river.

The lyri­cal and poet­ic illus­trat­ed book arranges its motifs not only accord­ing to the course of the sea­sons, but also accord­ing to plant and ani­mal geo­graph­i­cal, but also sys­tem­at­ic aspects.

The high-qual­i­­ty illus­trat­ed book is avail­able from book­shops (ISBN 3–9810032‑1–7) or direct­ly from the pub­lish­er Nation­al­park­s­tiftung Unteres Oder­tal, Schloss Criewen, Park 3, 16303 Schwedt, Tel.-Nr .: 03332–21980 , Tel.-Fax: 03332–219826, E‑Mail: , avail­able at a price of € 24.50.

The low price could only be achieved through the vol­un­tary work of the edi­tors and the pho­tog­ra­phers as well as the gen­er­ous sup­port of the two paper mills, UPM-Kymmene Papi­er GmbH and Co. KG and LEIPA Georg Lein­felder GmbH, which are 100% made of paper and card­board direct­ly at the Nation­al Park. Pro­duce waste paper, are made pos­si­ble. This coöper­a­tion between nature con­ser­va­tion and local indus­try is exem­plary and can only be welcomed.

Dr. Ans­gar Vössing
board of directors