Plant­i­ng and main­te­nance of hedges and field trees (for­est initialization)

The agri­cul­tur­al land­scapes of East­ern Elbe, but also in many oth­er parts of Europe, have been large­ly cleared and straight­ened for eco­nom­ic rea­sons over the past few decades, while land­scape-shap­ing struc­tures such as hedges and field trees have been removed. This not only has a mas­sive impact on bio­di­ver­si­ty, but also encour­ages soil ero­sion. If we start again today to elim­i­nate the mis­takes of the past, if pos­si­ble to plant new hedges and field trees on old struc­tures, then this will not only serve the pro­tec­tion of species, espe­cial­ly the birds and insects, but also the nec­es­sary adap­ta­tion of agri­cul­ture to cli­mate change in large parts of Europe and also Bran­den­burg will bring high­er tem­per­a­tures and low­er pre­cip­i­ta­tion in the future.

In the Low­er Oder Val­ley, many kilo­me­ters of new hedges and field trees have been cre­at­ed in recent years, often financed as com­pen­sa­tion and replace­ment mea­sures for inter­ven­tions in nature and the land­scape. That is mon­ey well spent. On the one hand, we want to pass on these pos­i­tive expe­ri­ences, on the oth­er hand, we also want to ben­e­fit from good results from oth­er areas.

The inter­na­tion­al con­fer­ence serves above all the exchange of the prac­ti­tion­ers, of farm­ers and foresters, land­scape plan­ners, hor­ti­cul­tur­ists and offi­cials and of course nature con­ser­va­tion­ists in a spe­cial way.

Con­fer­ence lan­guages: Ger­man, English