Gisela Deckert

Gisela Deckert (born Gisela Haagen , born June 19, 1930 in Berlin ) is a German zoologist and conservationist.

Life

Gisela Deckert grew up in Schöneiche near Berlin . From 1948 she studied zoology at the Humboldt University in Berlin and graduated on nest-building behavior in warblers. This was followed by a doctorate under Erwin Stresemann with the thesis Ethological Investigations on the Tree Sparrow .

Gisela Deckert has always been a freelancer. She prepared ornithological and behavioral expert reports for Tierpark Berlin . She edited natural history texts for foreign animal films for GDR television . It prepared ecological expert reports as the basis for the designation of protected areas and species protection projects.

Gisela Deckert is one of the founders of the regional nature conservation movement in the Dahme Lakes area. On the basis of the first state culture law of the GDR, she founded the ornithology and nature conservation group for the districts of Königs Wusterhausen and Zossen in 1971 . From 1980 she headed the ornithology department of the Königs Wusterhausen district of the Society for Nature and Environment (GNU) in the GDR's cultural association . From 1990 she was active on the board of the Naturschutzbund Deutschland (NABU), Regionalverband Dahmeland eV and from 2006 to 2009 its first chairwoman. Since 2009 she has been honorary chairwoman of the NABU regional association Dahmeland. From 1993 to 2001 she was on the advisory board of the lower nature conservation authority of the Dahme-Spreewald district. She has been an appointed member of the Board of Trustees for the Dahme-Heideseen Nature Park since 2001 . It refers to the threat to the local fauna from wind turbines and has been actively campaigning for the protection of the forest areas around Kallinchen as a landscape protection area since 2010 .

Awards

• Golden nature conservation pin of the Naturschutzbund Germany
• 2010: Medal of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

Fonts

• Contributions to the knowledge of the nest building technique of German Sylviids In: J. Orn. 96, 1955, pp. 186-206.
• Dwarf chambers (Emberiza pusilla) observed near Berlin. In: J. Orn. 99, 1958, p. 104.
• The tree sparrow. The new Brehm library. Zimsen, Wittenberg Lutherstadt 1968.
• On the ethology and ecology of the house sparrow (Passer d. Domesticus L.). In: Contrib. Vogelkd. 15, 1969, pp. 1-84.
• with Kurt Deckert : How do animals behave? Urania, Leipzig, Jena, Berlin 1974.
• Settlement density and foraging near Elster, Pica p. pica (L.) and hooded crow, Corvus corone cornix (L.) In: Beitr. Vogelkd. 26, 1980, pp. 305-334.
• Animals-plants-landscapes. About balance in nature. Urania, Leipzig, Jena, Berlin 1988.

Publications in the series Nature Conservation in Dahmeland by NABU Dahmeland:

• How do we behave in nature reserves? 1992, p. 22.
• The Ringed Plover - Bird of the Year 1993. 1993, pp. 3–5.
• The Nightingale - Bird of the Year 1995. 1995, pp. 28-29.
• The importance of fallow land for species protection. 1995, pp. 42-46.
• The Lapwing (Vanellus vanellus) - Bird of the Year 1996. 1996, pp. 32-36.
• Outlawed robbers. 1997, pp. 32-40.
• The Töpchiner Seen nature reserve and the importance of wilderness for nature conservation. 1998, pp. 6-15.
• The skylark - bird of the year 1998. 1998, pp. 15-16.
• Are only endangered species worth protecting? 1998, pp. 11-19.
• The Mahningsee-Dahmetal nature reserve. 1999, pp. 20-21.

Publications in the year book of NABU Dahmeland and Nature Park Dahme-Heideseen, Prieros, ISSN  1869-0920 :

• The wildlife of our parks. 2000, pp. 55-58
• What is it about that old oak? 2001, pp. 63-65.
• The reed bed and its inhabitants. 2002, pp. 62-64.
• The development towards a near-natural forest. 2003, 52-54.
• Fields and trees in the agricultural landscape. 2004, pp. 8-11.
• Loss of biodiversity due to introduced species. 2006, pp. 8-11.
• What do cormorants feed on? 2006, pp. 82-84.
• Our animal world is changing. 2007, pp. 84-90.
• Bats, nocturnal insect hunters. 2008, pp. 9-15.
• Far too little is known about this - an appeal to participate. 2008, pp. 94-98.
• NABU takes stock. 2009, pp. 13-21.
• Twenty years of NABU Dahmeland eV 2009, p. 22.
• The climate and we humans. 2010, pp. 7-13.
• Walks through fields and meadows. 2011, pp. 62-64.
• Hiking on lakes and rivers. 2011, pp. 98-100.
• Why was the cormorant bird of the year 2010? - A recent review. 2010, pp. 122–125.
• Otter - a secret inhabitant of our waters. 2012, p. 16.
• Summer golden cockerel, a garden bird. 2012, p. 24.
• The common redstart. 2012, p. 128.
• The turning neck. 2013, p. 54.
• The Zossener Heide. 2013, pp. 116–118.
• Climate policy against species protection? 2014, pp. 83–84.
• Success in preserving biodiversity? 2014, pp. 83–84.
• The life of the sparrows. 2016, pp. 36–39.
• We feed our garden birds. 2016, pp. 46–47.
• Importance of forests for biodiversity and climate protection. 2017, pp. 76–79.

literature

• Hans Sonnenberg: Always with nature. The work of the biologist Dr. Gisela Deckert in Dahmeland. Year Book of NABU Dahmeland and Dahme-Heideseen Nature Park. Prieros 2009, ISSN  1869-0920 , pp. 7-13.

Web links

• Literature by and about Gisela Deckert in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Märkische Allgemeine : The great old lady of nature conservation , February 16, 2010.