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.