Fight for the moor: Renaturation of the sunken lake starts in Berlin!

Fight for the moor: Renaturation of the sunken lake starts in Berlin!

From mid-January 2025, the Nature Conservation Berlin Foundation begins with comprehensive care and renaturation measures in the area of ​​the sunken lake in Rahnsdorf. The aim of this initiative, which is carried out on behalf of the Senate Department for Mobility, Transport, Climate Protection and the Environment, is the upgrading of the moor so that endangered plant and animal species can settle there again. To achieve this, some trees and shrubs have to be felled in the moor. Project manager Justus Meißner asks for understanding for this first, possibly unpleasant -looking step, since a more valuable environment for humans and nature should be created in the long term, such as berlin.de reported.

Das revolving - technical term for the removal of trees in bogs - is viewed as a first step towards bog restraint, which will be supplemented over the next few years by further care measures. In addition, non -location trees are removed and areas of lean grass are created, which promotes biodiversity in the region. These renaturation measures are financed from nature conservation bonds that are due for construction projects if interventions in nature cannot be compensated for. As reported by Stiftung-naturschutz.de , the Nature Conservation Berlin Foundation was also entrusted with the use of these funds, which are also to be used to compensate for greenhouse gas emissions in the event of inevitable service flights of the state government.

important environmental protection measures

The renaturation of bogs is a crucial step in the fight against climate change, since re -sentenced wetlands bind large amounts of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide. In addition, bogs are living space for many endangered animal and plant species. The Berlin Senate has therefore initiated measures to protect and revitalize these valuable areas. This has been successfully implemented by the Nature Conservation Foundation Berlin since 2012, and citizens who want to get involved have the opportunity to contribute to the rescue of other Berlin bogs.

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