Thuringia Nature Conservation Foundation

The Thuringia Nature Conservation Foundation is a state-owned foundation of the Free State of Thuringia. a. Promotes nature conservation and landscape conservation measures in Thuringia . The Chairman of the Board of Trustees is the State Secretary of the Thuringian Ministry of Nature Conservation, Olaf Möller .

development

The foundation was established on December 12, 1995 by resolution of the Thuringian state government ( Vogel I cabinet ). The foundation is based in Erfurt . The foundation's capital is 9.8 million euros.

Thuringia's Environment Minister Anja Siegesmund (Greens) announced in 2016 that the state would double its annual funds for the foundation and make 600,000 euros available from 2017. The main aim of the increase is to finance jobs.

task

The foundation has the task

• to promote research in the field of nature conservation and landscape management
• Promote environmental education and training opportunities.
• To secure land through leasing or acquisition and thus to promote nature conservation and landscape maintenance or to operate it yourself.
• Carry out maintenance measures in protected areas.
• Use the means of the equalization levy for their goals.

One of the foundation's main tasks is to maintain the Green Belt biotope network , in which Thuringia has a 763 km share. In order to preserve the Green Belt, almost 4,000 hectares of land in the Thuringian section of the Green Belt have now become the property of the foundation.

organization

The foundation board decides on the content of the foundation. Its members are appointed by the Thuringian Environment Minister. Currently these are among others:

• Olaf Möller , State Secretary for the Environment (Chairman)
• Martin Feustel, President of the Thuringian State Institute for Environment and Geology (TLUG)
• Peter Ritschel, Thuringian Ministry of Infrastructure and Agriculture (TMIL)
• Ines Heß, Thuringian Ministry of Finance
• u. a.

The foundation board is responsible for the management of the foundation's business. It consists of three state employees and uses an office.

Areas and projects

A part of the Thuringian Green Belt seen from the Thuringian Tower , recognizable as a lighter deciduous forest belt

The foundation looks after over 6000 hectares of land in Thuringia. This also includes the more than 4,000 hectares of the Green Belt along the former inner-German border .

The foundation renatured u. a. Parts of the Werraaue near Frankenroda in the Wartburg district . Another long-term project is the rewetting of the moor landscape near Alperstedt in the Sömmerda district .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Nature conservation: Siegesmund wants to strengthen the Nature Conservation Foundation. Retrieved July 14, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Foundation for Nature Conservation Thuringia | Foundation |. In: www.stiftung-naturschutz-thueringen.de. Retrieved July 14, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Green Belt Thuringia , accessed on August 10, 2016