Regard­ing the deci­sion of the Fed­er­al Envi­ron­ment Min­is­ter Jür­gen Trittin

Regard­ing the deci­sion of the Fed­er­al Envi­ron­ment Min­is­ter Jür­gen Trit­tin, con­trary to the wish­es of the Bran­den­burg state gov­ern­ment, the Asso­ci­a­tion of Friends of the Ger­­man-Pol­ish Euro­pean Nation­al Park Unteres Oder­tal e. V. not to with­draw the spon­sor­ship for the major nature con­ser­va­tion project of nation­al rep­re­sen­ta­tive impor­tance “Low­er Oder­tal”, explained the chair­man of the board Thomas Berg:

“Since 1992, the asso­ci­a­tion has ful­filled the nature con­ser­va­tion require­ments for the areas it has acquired, point by point, in the grant noti­fi­ca­tion from the Bran­den­burg Envi­ron­ment Min­is­ter Matthias Platzeck, as far as it was able to do so. He took the then envi­ron­ment min­is­ter seri­ous­ly and at his word and pur­sued high-qual­i­­ty, demand­ing and inter­na­tion­al­ly rec­og­nized nature con­ser­va­tion for the ben­e­fit of peo­ple liv­ing today and in the future, on a vol­un­tary and non-prof­it basis. In the future he will con­tin­ue his work in the inter­ests of the com­mon good and for the preser­va­tion of cre­ation for the com­ing gen­er­a­tions; he will not let him­self be swayed by the pop­ulist leaps and U‑turns of Platzeck and Birth­ler, but will faith­ful­ly ful­fill the man­date he received from Platzeck in 1992. The asso­ci­a­tion will con­tin­ue its work on the basis of the Nation­al Park Act of 1995, the grant notice of 1992 and the IUCN Guide­lines II in the future, in close coöper­a­tion with the nature con­ser­va­tion asso­ci­a­tions and all peo­ple in the region, at the munic­i­pal, state and fed­er­al lev­el who par­tic­i­pate are inter­est­ed in for­ward-look­ing nature con­ser­va­tion and nature-friend­­ly tourism “.