Bavarian Academy for Nature Conservation and Landscape Management
The Bavarian Academy for Nature Conservation and Landscape Management (ANL) is an educational and research institution for nature conservation and landscape management in Bavaria supported by the Free State of Bavaria and based in Laufen in the Berchtesgadener Land . The managing director is Dieter Pasch.
history
The starting point for the establishment of a nature conservation academy was the first European nature conservation year in 1970. The Bavarian Nature Conservation Act (Article 47) and the associated ordinance reflected the environmental awareness that had increased in Bavaria in the 1960s and 1970s. Among other things, this led to the establishment of the first nature conservation academy in Germany, the Bavarian Academy for Nature Conservation and Landscape Management (ANL) in Laufen an der Salzach in 1976 . By resolution of the Bavarian State Parliament, the academy was set up in the division of the Bavarian State Ministry for the Environment and Consumer Protection . Its first director was Wolfgang Zielonkowski. In 1986 the ANL took over the ecological teaching and research station in Straß with an area of around 15 hectares.
After Zielonkowski, Christoph Goppel, son of the CSU politician Alfons Goppel , took over the management of the academy in 1992 and developed it into an institution for research, teaching and public relations. In 1994 the ANL set up the XXI. World Ornithology Conference in Rosenheim. In 1999 the ANL moved into its current administration building in Seethalerstraße. The ordinance, amended in 2000, expanded the tasks of the ANL to include the training of the Bavarian nature conservation watch, the certified nature and landscape guides (ZNL) and certified nature and landscape conservationists (GNL). In 2001 the renovated former Capuchin monastery in Laufen was opened as the academy's training center and guest house "Kapuzinerhof". The ANL has been a reference academy at TUM for teacher training since 2008 .
The ANL has been headed by Dieter Pasch since April 2, 2014.
Research and Didactics
The academy organizes courses, specialist conferences, symposia, internships, but also workshops and excursions. Since September 2001, events have been offered primarily in the ANL's "Kapuzinerhof" training center in Laufen. An important part of the Academy's educational offerings are the multi-day training courses for beaver advisers, bat advisers, nature and landscape guides, as well as nature conservation guards. After their training, nature conservation guards support the lower nature conservation authorities of the Bavarian districts and urban districts in their nature conservation tasks in accordance with the Bavarian Nature Conservation Act (Art. 49).
In 2014, the ANL's research area is characterized by projects on nature conservation-optimized grazing, research into the history of nature conservation in Bavaria, the connection between social and nature conservation demands on urban habitats and the development of management strategies for FFH species and habitats, as well as the documentation of various Species groups.
The ANL is the editor of numerous publications (brochures, leaflets) and the magazine ANLiegen Natur . ANLiegen Natur focuses on contributions to nature and species protection, landscape maintenance and environmental education.
The ANL also operates the Straß eco station, about three kilometers northwest of Laufen in the direction of Burghausen (B20). The site was acquired by the Bavarian Nature Conservation Fund in 1988. Since 1995 the conventional use as intensive grassland has been converted to fertilizer-free cultivation with simultaneous suspension of ditch clearance. The small-scale structured area is characterized by a high variety of rare species. For this reason, it is the target of numerous internships and training courses at the academy, which find reference areas for species-rich grassland habitats here.
From 2002 to 2004 the Academy took part in the Natura 2000 dialogue process - “International Year of Mountains”, as well as in the European research report on blue ant , the so-called “Maculinea Management (Macman)” and in twinning projects on nature conservation standards in Slovakia and Turkey part. In 2010 the ANL became the first academy worldwide to become a member of the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources IUCN . A cooperation with the University of Salzburg in the research area urban ecology began .
The teaching materials manual "Animals live in class" developed by the ANL was presented in 2010 by State Ministers Markus Söder and Ludwig Spaenle in Munich.
Web links
- Academy website
- Weblog "Nature Conservation in Bavaria"
- ELENA: International project brings live animals to schools