Permanent forest foundation in Pomerania
The permanent forest foundation in Pomerania was established on December 20, 2011 as the first German permanent forest foundation under civil law. It is non-profit and is based in Buddenhagen in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .
Founder and Board of Trustees
The founder is the forester Eckhard Wenzlaff, who made both the property and the first forest areas from his woodpecker forest property available to the foundation. The founder is active as the forest spokesman for NABU at the federal level. He has taken over the chairmanship of the board of trustees himself. The foundation wants to promote and popularize the dissemination of the idea of permanent forests after almost 100 years of resistance in civil servant, public forestry and in forestry practice.
aims
According to the statutes, the most important goals of the foundation are:
- the promotion of the permanent forest idea in the training of forest staff, forest owners and silvicultural practice
- Measures of integrated forest nature protection , to maintain the water balance and its networking with forest management
- Promotion of biodiversity in commercial forests and testing of new methods of active forest conservation in the course of permanent forest management
- practical support in the training and further education of young foresters in relation to the permanent forest idea, promotion of silvicultural internships, excursion events
- Integration of bowl game management and social public relations measures
The foundation feels obliged to consistently transfer the forest areas entrusted to it and promised by other forest owners into natural permanent forests.