Borkum reef
Coordinates: 53 ° 37 ′ 0 ″ N , 6 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ E
The Borkum Riff nature reserve in Lower Saxony is located in the 12 nautical mile zone of the North Sea in the area where the Ems flows into the open North Sea . It is located about 20 km northwest of the East Frisian island of Borkum in the Ballonplate and Geldsackplate area and thus directly on the area of the border between Germany and the Netherlands ( Ems-Dollart Treaty ), which has not been finally determined here .
Nature reserve
The nature reserve was placed under nature protection by ordinance of August 26, 1984. The protected area bears the statistical label NSG WE 276 and covers an area of 10,000 hectares. The responsible lower nature conservation authority is the Lower Saxony State Agency for Water Management, Coastal and Nature Conservation (NLWKN) .
nature and landscape
The nature reserve is a marine area with water depths of 3 to 25 meters. Due to the confluence of differently warm and salty water masses, a nutritional abundance is generated which favors an increased fish density. This forms an important food source for sea and coastal birds, also for species that breed in the vicinity of the area. The protection is intended to ensure that the marine area in its function as feeding, wintering, migration and resting area is preserved, especially for birds.
Wildlife
The area therefore has a particularly high significance for red-throated divers and gulls , but also offers eider , scoter , velvet scoter , black-throated diver , fulmar , gannets , cormorants , razorbills , guillemots , kittiwakes , little gull , black-headed gull , gull , gull , gull , tern , river Tern and arctic tern provide a livelihood.
Other categories of protection
The nature reserve is part of the bird sanctuary V 1 Lower Saxony Wadden Sea and the adjacent coastal sea and the European ecological network Natura 2000 . In the east it borders directly on the Lower Saxony Wadden Sea National Park .
Namesake
In the 1960s, the Danish pipe tobacco brand Borkum Riff was introduced worldwide. It belongs to the Scandinavian Tobacco Group .
Web links
- Nature reserve "Borkum Riff" in the database of the Lower Saxony State Office for Water Management, Coastal and Nature Conservation (NLWKN)
- Map of the protected area in the database of the Lower Saxony State Office for Water Management, Coastal and Nature Conservation (NLWKN)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Ordinance on the “Borkum Riff” nature reserve of August 26, 2010
- ↑ Official nautical chart No. 90 (INT 1461), BSH , 33rd edition, Rostock 2012