Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,

I would like to present you with the Low­er Oder Val­ley Nation­al Park Year­book 2006, which for the third time now con­tains sci­en­tif­ic, nature con­ser­va­tion, per­son­al and humor­ous con­tri­bu­tions to the Low­er Oder Val­ley. I think it is pre­cise­ly in this relaxed com­bi­na­tion and mix­ture that the spe­cial charm of a year­book lies, which tries to meet so many dif­fer­ent demands, a read­ing book for all con­tem­po­raries inter­est­ed in Germany’s only Auen Nation­al Park.

The Nation­al Park Year­book Unteres Oder­tal 2006 is reg­is­tered with ISBN and ISSN num­ber and can there­fore be obtained every­where and is now being pub­lished for the third time in a row. It has become the most impor­tant forum for all top­ics relat­ed to the nation­al park. For cur­rent nature con­ser­va­tion pol­i­cy dis­cus­sions, I refer to the first arti­cle by BERG & VÖSSING (pp. 4–9).

I rec­om­mend the Low­er Oder Val­ley Nation­al Park Year­book 2006 to your atten­tion and I would be delight­ed if you could share it with your view­ers, lis­ten­ers and readers.

Kind regards

Dr. Ans­gar Vössing
board of directors