No large shredder system for cranes in the national park region
In the local area of Hohenselchow in the Gartz office, a change to the zoning plan is currently being discussed. A special wind energy park area is to be identified. The municipality of Hohenselchow has clearly spoken out in favor of the wind energy park. The process is currently being examined by the Gartz office.
The Association of Friends of the German-Polish European National Park Unteres Odertal e. V. categorically rejects a special area wind energy park close to the border to the national park region and thus also in the municipality of Hohenselchow. Such a concentration area for wind turbines would cause considerable damage to the national park, in particular to the cranes, wild geese and other migratory birds. At the moment around 8,500 cranes are resting again in the Lower Oder Valley. In recent years, between 4,000 and 15,000 birds have always been counted. This makes the region one of the largest Central European inland resting places for cranes.
In recent years, especially in autumn, a real crane tourism has developed in the Lower Oder Valley. With well over 100 participants, the annual crane tour of the National Park Foundation is by far the most popular event as part of the National Park Foundation’s excursion program. The cranes not only bring good luck, they also bring visitors and thus stay and thus money to the region.
There has been a lot of discussion and argument about wind turbines in the Uckermark in recent months. It has been proven that their influence on the bird world, especially on bird migration, is extremely negative. In particular in the national park region and in the adjacent areas, wind turbines are therefore to be rejected, especially on such an unusual crane resting place. We therefore call on the Gartz office and the Uckermark district to refuse the permits required for wind turbines, in particular the amendment of the land use plan for the municipality of Hohenselchow.
The board of directors
