Baden-Württemberg State Nature Conservation Association

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The Landesnaturschutzverband Baden-Württemberg e. V. (LNV) is a German non-governmental umbrella organization that is dedicated to nature, environmental and landscape protection in Baden-Württemberg. It is the umbrella organization of many nature conservation organizations recognized by the state of Baden-Württemberg with 33 member associations representing around 540,000 individual members (as of April 2019). The LNV is a recognized nature conservation association according to Section 3 Paragraph 1 of the Environmental Remedies Act (UmwRG) and a member of the German Nature Conservation Ring (DNR) .

history

The organization was founded in 1971 as the “Action Group for Nature and Environmental Protection Baden-Württemberg e. V. ”and was recognized in 1976 by the state of Baden-Württemberg as an umbrella organization under the State Nature Conservation Act. Recognition as a nature conservation association under the Federal Nature Conservation Act (BNatSchG) took place in 1978. As a recognized nature conservation association, the LNV has special rights of participation and legal action ( Section 63 BNatSchG, Section 49 State Nature Conservation Act (NatSchG) and Section 2 Environmental Remedies Act (UmwRG)) in the event of interventions in the natural balance to. Since 1997 the action group has been called “Landesnaturschutzverband Baden-Württemberg e. V. “and is entered under this name in the Stuttgart register of associations.

In 1999, fundamental differences of opinion between the nature conservation associations BUND and NABU and other member associations in the LNV became clear, which from the point of view of the two associations would represent their own interests and place them above the non-profit environmental protection goals. Thereupon the nature conservation association (NABU Baden-Württemberg) declared its exit. The Federation for the Environment and Nature Conservation (BUND Baden-Württemberg) and the regional association of the Verkehrsclub Deutschland (VCD) followed in 2000. However, close cooperation is maintained both at the state and regional level and in the LNV working groups in the city and rural districts.

Gerhard Bronner has been the chairman since May 16, 2015.

goals and tasks

The statutory task of the LNV is to promote nature, environmental and landscape protection. The LNV is politically neutral. He is committed to the vision of a permanently sustainable , environmentally sound development, as the United Nations in its action program Agenda 21 adopted to sustainability in 1992 in Rio de Janeiro. On the basis of his legal right to be heard, he is involved in planning and other projects of the authorities and takes a position on planned interventions that could affect nature, the environment and the landscape. The LNV represents the interests of nature, environmental and landscape protection vis-à-vis authorities and private individuals, draws attention to grievances, insists on compliance with nature conservation and environmental law and sustainability criteria and makes constructive suggestions for improvements. One of the important tasks of the LNV is to coordinate the statements of its members.

In terms of content, the work of the LNV is based on the "positions on nature and environmental protection", which were unanimously adopted by the LNV general meeting in 2013.

The activities of the LNV and the tasks processed are regularly compiled in an LNV annual report.

Members

Members of the LNV include the German Alpine Association (DAV) Baden-Württemberg State Association , the Black Forest Association , the Swabian Alb Association , the Tourist Association Die Naturfreunde Baden-Württemberg as well as the State Hunting Association and the State Fisheries Association Baden-Württemberg . Other member associations deal with a specific topic, such as the Bat Conservation Working Group, the BW Lynx Initiative or the Local Orchid Working Group. Several other members are regionally working and smaller associations. According to its own information, 33 associations with around 540,000 members are united in the LNV (as of 2019).

Since 2017, natural and legal persons can become supporting members of the LNV.

Topics and association work

In addition to the general work priorities, the LNV regularly defines key topics that are to be dealt with in more depth and brought more into the public eye through appropriate (political) educational work. Currently, these are the issues of species protection , education for sustainable development (ESD) - especially natural history education in schools - and a reduction in land consumption for settlement and transport.

The successes of the political LNV work at the state level include the landscape conservation associations (LEV), which have been introduced almost across the board and ensure qualified supervision of protected areas and biotopes ; a realignment of the land consolidation in Baden-Württemberg, which has the ecological added value as a declared goal and is no longer based solely on the production optimization of agriculture; or greater attention to urban fallow land and vacancies in residential and commercial construction and thus less surface sealing .

The focus of the LNV work at regional and local level is on nature conservation work “on site” and in its coordination. Examples are the elaboration of joint statements by the nature conservation associations on planning and approval procedures in the context of public participation or through discussions with local politicians by members of the LNV working groups.

As a regular publication, the LNV issues the monthly LNV info letter with information from nature conservation and the LNV especially for Baden-Württemberg. In November 2016 the 6th edition of the "Taschenbuch des Naturschutzes" was published, which summarizes the most important legal provisions for nature conservation in Baden-Württemberg. The LNV is the organizer of the annual future forum for nature conservation, which takes up current nature and environmental protection issues and discusses them in front of representatives from politics, administration, science, voluntary nature conservation and other interested parties.

In 2004, the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture introduced a so-called "achievement badge Nature" issued to badges connecting from other areas. According to the LNV, the idea was to “give greater appreciation to the knowledge of plants, animals, fossils, minerals, celestial bodies, of home and landscape by awarding a pretty badge”. As part of environmental education , children should be awarded the badge of achievement after participating in suitable events by nature conservation associations and authorities or other institutions ( nature conservation centers , forest offices , museums). The “badge” was divided into three performance levels.

Association organization

Board

The major member associations are represented with seats and votes on the LNV Board of Directors, which currently has 17 members. Other board members represent the LNV working groups or are directly elected by the general assembly. The board members meet regularly and ensure a common orientation of the LNV.

The incumbent LNV chairman has been Gerhard Bronner from Donaueschingen since May 16, 2015, the deputy chairmen are Thomas Dietz from Deizisau and Tilman Preuss from Schrozberg.

Working groups

The heart and basis of the association are the more than 40 LNV working groups at city and district level in Baden-Württemberg, in which active, voluntary nature conservationists work together across associations, exchange ideas and discuss joint statements on hearing procedures and strategies. The LNV working groups act largely independently within the framework of the rules of procedure specified by the LNV. The statements must not deviate from the guidelines of the LNV, which are laid down in the "LNV positions on nature and environmental protection" from 2013 and in other LNV position papers, and must not contradict elementary positions on nature, environmental and landscape protection stand. Membership in a member association is not required for employees of the working groups.

Speakers

The LNV is advised at the state level by LNV speakers, a selected group of experts with experts from administration, science and from the LNV member associations.

Office

The LNV office in Stuttgart is the only full-time association institution. The managing directors are Christine Lorenz-Gräser and Anke Trube. The LNV office ensures, among other things, the organization and coordination of the association's work and the technical and organizational support of voluntary conservationists.

LNV badge of honor

The State Nature Conservation Association has committed itself to promoting nature, environmental and landscape protection in Baden-Württemberg. The association has been awarding the LNV badge of honor together with a certificate for outstanding services in nature and environmental protection since 2004. The award is in recognition and appreciation of special services to nature and environmental protection.

LNV Foundation

The LNV Foundation was established in 1986 and promotes projects in nature and environmental protection. It mainly helps with the co-financing of material costs for projects by volunteer conservationists in Baden-Württemberg. The funding spectrum ranges from the acquisition of land for areas that are valuable in terms of nature conservation, through specific species protection measures, such as the creation of still waters for amphibians, to environmental education projects. A board of trustees, consisting of LNV chairman Gerhard Bronner as chairman, LNV treasurer Regina Schmidt-Kühner as deputy, LNV legal advisor Konrad Kramer and Ulrike Möck and Jürgen Schmidt as representatives of nature and environmental protection decide on project funding. Christine Lorenz-Gräser is the managing director of the LNV Foundation.

Since its inception, the foundation has supported around 300 nature conservation projects with a total of over € 300,000.

The foundation defines funding priorities every two years. So far, these have included nature education, bodies of water, renewable energy and biotope network measures. In the intervening years, various projects can be funded.

Applications to the foundation can be submitted by the end of April each year.

history

The founding of the Landesnaturschutzverband (State Nature Conservation Association) took place at a time that was turbulent in terms of environmental policy: the Council of Europe proclaimed 1970 the first European year for nature conservation in 1966 . The declared aim was to give the European population an awareness of the environmental problems in Europe through large-scale national awareness-raising and education campaigns. The European Nature Conservation Year 1970 was the first Europe-wide environmental campaign with over 200,000 actions and is considered to be the birth year of the modern nature conservation movement in Europe. Over 500 events took place in Germany alone.

The then President of the Swabian Alb Association, Georg Fahrbach , organized, with financial support from the state of Baden-Württemberg, the establishment of an "Action Group for the European Year of Nature Conservation 1970", which consisted of various local, hiking and nature conservation associations. The association mainly organized events such as lectures, film screenings or discussions with politicians in the nature conservation year. Towards the end of 1970, however, the associations wanted to create a permanent association with a fixed association structure from the loose organizational community, which had only been set up for a specific occasion. The main reason for this was the predominantly negative impression that the association representatives had of the state government's efforts to protect nature and the environment. Almost all associations wanted a strong state nature conservation association with an effective representation in Stuttgart.

Based on the knowledge that nature conservation associations are more likely to be heard by decision-makers when they pool their strengths and speak with one voice, the “Action Group for Nature and Environmental Protection Baden-Württemberg e. V. “(ANU) under the first chairman Georg Fahrbach.

In 1976, the ANU was recognized by the state of Baden-Württemberg as an umbrella organization under the State Nature Conservation Act, and it was recognized as a nature conservation association under the Federal Nature Conservation Act in 1978. Due to the legal recognition, the association is also the mouthpiece of smaller, non-nationwide member associations, which alone do not have any statutory rights of participation Plans and projects. Since an amendment to the statutes in 1997, the action group has been renamed “Landesnaturschutzverband Baden-Württemberg e. V. “and is entered under this name in the Stuttgart register of associations. Through the amalgamation of supraregional, regional and thematically specialized associations to form an umbrella organization, the influence of the nature conservation associations in Baden-Württemberg increased significantly. Today the LNV is the umbrella organization of 33 nature and environmental protection associations recognized by the state of Baden-Württemberg with around 540,000 members.

timeline

  • 1971 Foundation of the Action Group for Nature and Environmental Protection in Baden-Württemberg
  • 1971–1976 chairman Georg Fahrbach
  • 1976 Recognition as an umbrella organization according to the LNatSchG
  • 1976–1983 Chairman Willi Karl Birn
  • 1979 Recognition as a nature conservation association according to § 29 BNatSchG
  • 1979 Start of the establishment of LNV working groups to exercise the right to be heard under the BNatSchG
  • 1983–1991 Chairman Günther Reichelt
  • 1986 LNV Foundation for the promotion of nature and environmental protection measures is established
  • 1991–2000 chairman Michael Hassler
  • 1999 Start of the series of events "LNV Future Forum Nature Conservation". The future forum has taken place annually since then and addresses current issues
  • 2000–2015 Chairman Reiner Ehret
  • 2003 Start of awarding outstanding conservationists with the LNV badge of honor
  • 2015 - today Chairman Gerhard Bronner

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ VCD resigns from the state nature conservation association. Retrieved June 19, 2017 .
  2. ^ Statutes of the Baden-Württemberg State Nature Conservation Association e. V. ›State Nature Conservation Association . March 3, 2013 ( lnv-bw.de [accessed January 10, 2017]).
  3. ↑ Positions on nature and environmental protection
  4. ↑ LNV annual report
  5. ↑ LNV Foundation ›Landesnaturschutzverband . January 2, 2017 ( lnv-bw.de [accessed January 10, 2017]).
  6. ^ Achievement badge nature ›Landesnaturschutzverband . April 22, 2004 ( lnv-bw.de [accessed June 18, 2017]).
  7. ↑ The board of the Baden-Württemberg State Nature Conservation Association . November 8, 2016 ( lnv-bw.de [accessed January 10, 2017]).
  8. ^ Statutes of the Baden-Württemberg State Nature Conservation Association e. V. ›State Nature Conservation Association . March 3, 2013 ( lnv-bw.de [accessed January 10, 2017]).
  9. ↑ LNV speakers
  10. ↑ Office ›State Nature Conservation Association . July 3, 2015 ( lnv-bw.de [accessed January 10, 2017]).
  11. ↑ LNV badge of honor
  12. ↑ LNV Foundation ›Landesnaturschutzverband . January 2, 2017 ( lnv-bw.de [accessed January 10, 2017]).
  13. ^ Reichelt, Günther .: Be awake for tomorrow: 40 years of citizens for nature and environmental protection in Baden-Württemberg . K. Theiss, 1992, ISBN 3-8062-1051-9 .
  14. ↑ Chances of Diversity ›Landesnaturschutzverband . April 16, 2010 ( lnv-bw.de [accessed January 10, 2017]).