Suc­cess­ful work­shops of the LIFE AMPHICON project of the Low­er Oder Val­ley Nation­al Park Asso­ci­a­tion at the Teero­fen­brücke Wilder­ness School

Criewen, 13 July 2023 — As part of the LIFE AMPHICON project, two suc­cess­ful work­shops were recent­ly held at the Wilder­ness School of the Low­er Oder Val­ley Nation­al Park Asso­ci­a­tion. The events offered var­i­ous school class­es the unique oppor­tu­ni­ty to active­ly learn about prac­ti­cal nature con­ser­va­tion and expe­ri­ence nature in a play­ful way.

LIFE AMPHICON, a wide-rang­ing nature con­ser­va­tion project of the Low­er Oder Val­ley Nation­al Park Asso­ci­a­tion togeth­er with the Euro­pean Union, aims to pro­tect par­tic­u­lar­ly endan­gered amphib­ian species such as the fire-bel­lied toad and the great crest­ed newt and their habi­tats. Equal­ly impor­tant is the imple­men­ta­tion of envi­ron­men­tal edu­ca­tion mea­sures to sen­si­tise the next gen­er­a­tion to the impor­tance of species con­ser­va­tion and to involve them in active work.

One high­light of the work­shops was the mon­i­tor­ing of the devel­op­ment of amphib­ian pop­u­la­tions at renat­u­ralised small bod­ies of water in the Fel­chowsee area. The pupils had the oppor­tu­ni­ty to learn more about the inter­re­la­tion­ships in our local waters.

There was also an excit­ing land­ing net excur­sion to the pold­er areas of the Low­er Oder Val­ley Nation­al Park with Year 3 pupils from the Bruno H. Bürgel pri­ma­ry school in Eber­swalde. Back at the wilder­ness school, var­i­ous types of ponds and pools were micro­scoped by the pupils in the lab­o­ra­to­ry room, allow­ing them to expe­ri­ence the diver­si­ty of the ecosys­tem at first hand.

“The work­shops as part of the LIFE AMPHICON project enable school­child­ren to expe­ri­ence prac­ti­cal nature con­ser­va­tion and get active­ly involved in the pro­tec­tion of endan­gered amphib­ian species,” explains Lars Schulz, project man­ag­er of the AMPHICON project. “It is very impor­tant to us to get young peo­ple inter­est­ed in nature con­ser­va­tion, because you only pro­tect what you love and you only love what you know.”

These suc­cess­ful work­shops empha­sise the com­mit­ment of the Low­er Oder Val­ley Nation­al Park Asso­ci­a­tion to the pro­tec­tion of amphib­ians and the train­ing of the next gen­er­a­tion of conservationists.

Press con­tact:
Lars Schulz
Nation­al Park Asso­ci­a­tion Low­er Oder Valley
Park 3, Criewen Castle
16303 Schwedt/Oder

Tele­fon: +49 3332–2198–25
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Pic­tures of the mon­i­tor­ing at the Fel­chowsee area
Class of the Montes­sori School Berlin
Pic­ture cred­its: Lars Schulz

Pic­tures Wilder­ness School Teerofenbrücke
Bruno H. Bürgel Pri­ma­ry School
Pic­ture cred­its: Lars Schulz et al.