Action alliance Forum Nature

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Action alliance Forum Nature
Seat Berlin
founding 2004

place Berlin
president Max Freiherr von Elverfeldt
Vice President (s) Eberhard Hartelt
executive Director Wolfgang von Dallwitz
Members 8 ordinary, 7 promotional
Organization type GbR
Website www.forum-natur.de

The Action Alliance Forum Natur (AFN) is a German interest group of forest owners and hunters based in Berlin. According to the statutes, the forum wants to contribute to “preserving, caring for and using nature.” Max Freiherr von Elverfeldt is chairman of the action alliance and at the same time president of the working group of German forest owners associations . Eberhard Hartelt, President of the farmers and winegrowers' association Rhineland-Palatinate South eV, is deputy chairman.

According to its own statement, the action alliance wants to bundle and coordinate the interests of nature users and conservationists.

aims

The purpose is to “discuss and assess” questions relating to property policy, economic and environmental policy, the sustainable use and protection of nature and the landscape at the federal level. The same applies to the rights of the farmers and foresters, hunters, fishermen, winegrowers, riders, gardeners and other landowners united in the association. The aim should be a common position of the member associations on nature conservation and consumer policy issues.

job

The association acts in the environment of the German federal ministries and at EU level as a lobby organization for its members on nature conservation issues that affect the interests of the members.

In 2016, the AFN started a campaign with the aim of renegotiating the European nature conservation directives of the Natura 2000 network and the flora-fauna-habitat directive. It says whether the two pieces of legislation, the EU Birds Directive from 1979 and the NATURA 2000 network from 1992, should be combined. From the point of view of many conservationists, this results in a weakening of management regulations. In February 2016, the forum presented its own “legal and scientific” report.

Among other things, it requires that the EU Birds Directive only apply to a selection of particularly endangered species and that at least 234 species should be excluded. Normal landscape species such as skylark , blackcap and robin would no longer be protected, as would migrating species that are hunted in the Mediterranean .

The private interest should be strengthened compared to the public interest . The EU currently allows exceptions to be made in the protection of species “for compelling reasons of overriding public interest”. Nature conservation associations criticize the fact that this "requirement ... is already very heavily used in practice" (NABU). The Forum Natur wants to extend exceptions for the "private interest". “This would ultimately put the commercial interest of individuals above the social interest in nature conservation,” NABU criticizes the proposal.

Members

As supporting members:

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.forum-natur.de/
  2. ↑ Articles of Association | Forum nature. In: www.forum-natur.de. Retrieved May 22, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Max Freiherr von Elverfeldt takes over the chairmanship of the Action Alliance Forum Nature In: www.topagrar.com. Retrieved June 15, 2019 .
  4. ↑ SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg Germany: WWF study: Many nature reserves in Europe are threatened with destruction. In: SPIEGEL ONLINE. Retrieved June 9, 2016 .
  5. ↑ https://www.jagdverband.de/sites/default/files/Gutachten%20Fitness%20Check%20Natura%202000.pdf Report on the DJV website, May 22, 2016 (PDF)
  6. ↑ New insights: German lobbying against nature conservation in Brussels - Naturschätze.Retten. In: Naturschätze.Retten. February 23, 2016. Retrieved May 23, 2016 .