Thurauen Nature Center

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The Thurauen Nature Center is an information and experience center located in Flaach in the Zürcher Weinland . It was founded in 2011 and provides information about a renaturation project on the Thur .

background

By river regulation , drainage and conversion to agricultural land and settlement areas of the original are over 90% water meadows have been destroyed in Switzerland. They are also of great importance for humans, because floodplains protect against flooding , ensure clean drinking water and are valuable recreational areas.

The Thurauen are the largest floodplain landscape in the Swiss Plateau and a nature reserve of national importance. They are home to a multitude of rare animal and plant species, such as the kingfisher , oriole or beaver . Since 2008 the Thurauen have been the scene of one of the largest renaturations in the country. The Thur is now allowed to flow freely again for the last five kilometers before it flows into the Rhine .

The Thur is not only regaining its dynamism with the project "Flood protection and the floodplain landscape of the Thurm Estuary". For the first time in Switzerland, a link between nature conservation, flood protection and tourism was sought.

Mission and sponsorship

To inform the public about the restoration of the Thur and to allow her immediate nature encounters who commissioned the canton of Zurich , the PanEco with the construction and operation of the nature center Thurauen. The nature center is thus part of a donation-financed foundation that campaigns for nature and species protection as well as environmental education and has been awarded the ZEWO seal of approval .

Exhibition and adventure trail

The interactive exhibition in the visitor center shows visitors the habitats of a floodplain. The development of the Thur from straightening to renaturation is shown on a symbolic course of the river. An air walkway connects the visitor center with the adventure trail through the alluvial forest.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Meadows at the mouth of the Thurm , Office for Landscape and Nature of the Canton of Zurich, accessed on February 29, 2016.
  2. ^ Renaturation of the Thur , Thurauen Nature Center, accessed on February 29, 2016.
  3. ^ Die Thurauen , Naturzentrum Thurauen, accessed on February 29, 2016.
  4. ↑ Sponsorship , PanEco Foundation, accessed on February 29, 2016.
  5. ↑ Thurauen Nature Center , museums.ch, accessed on February 29, 2016.

Coordinates: 47 ° 34 ′ 43.7 "  N , 8 ° 34 ′ 54.5"  E ; CH1903:  686,005  /  270 416