Torferneuerungsverein Bürmoos
The Torferneuerungsverein Bürmoos is an association in the Flachgau municipality of Bürmoos in the Austrian state of Salzburg . He campaigns for the renaturation of the areas in the municipality of Bürmoos that have been destroyed by the mechanical extraction of peat.
history
The association was founded on December 3, 1992 and emerged from an initiative group that had campaigned for the natural restoration of the milled peat areas as early as the early 1980s. In 1984 this initiative reached a unanimous resolution of the municipal council, according to which the areas owned by the municipality would be renatured. In 1992, the municipality of Bürmoos acquired 23 hectares of forest and moorland from the “Salzburg” housing association and rededicated it from construction to grassland. In 1995 the community and the Torferneuerungsverein received the ARGE Alp environmental protection award for their services to the preservation of the Bürmooser Moor.
In 1996 the association set up a circular trail with 22 display boards in the Bürmooser Moor , which documents the history and nature of the moor. In 2008, the intensive work of the association was rewarded when the Bürmooser Moor was declared a nature and European protected area. In addition to this recognition, the association received numerous national and international awards.
The association currently has 563 members. About 70 members of all ages actively participate in the work on landscape maintenance and cultural work.
Tasks of the association
- Voluntary and free implementation of landscape maintenance tasks in the moorland owned by the municipality
- Information about the nature reserve and guided tours
- Publication of the association newspaper "Torfkurier"
- Cultural activities such as the creation and publication of films and books as well as the implementation of lectures and excursions to maintain the tradition of Bürmoos as a place for glassblowers, peat cutters and bricks
Awards
- November 1993: Nature Conservation Prize of the State of Salzburg (1st Prize)
- November 1994: Stieglwasserschutzpreis 1994 (2nd prize)
- August 1995: ARGE Alp recognition award
- July 1998: "Environmental laurel" from the State Environmental Prosecutor Salzburg
- Sept. 1999: Awarded as a "hedge-friendly community" by the Austrian Nature Conservation Union
- Nov. 1999: Federal Ministry for the Environment, Youth and Family a 1st prize in the competition "To a society for all ages"
- Dec. 2001: Ford Nature Conservation Award 2001
- March 2002: Salzburg Cultural Goods Prize for the "Moor Experience Trail"
- Oct. 2005: “Forest-Wild-Field” anniversary award by the “Silver Break Order for the Protection of Forest, Wildlife and Field”.