Jordsand Association

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Jordsand Association for the Protection of Sea Birds and Nature V.
Club-Jordsand-Logo-2014.svg
purpose Sea and coastal bird protection, nature protection
Chair: Mathias Vaagt
Executive Director: Ina Brüning
Establishment date: 1907
Number of members: approx. 3,000
Seat : Hamburg
Website: www.jordsand.de

The Jordsand Association for the Protection of Sea Birds and Nature V. was founded in Hamburg in 1907 as the "Association for the establishment of bird sanctuaries on the German coasts - Jordsand" (name until 1966) , making it one of the oldest nature conservation organizations in Germany . Since 1982 the association's office has been in the House of Nature ( Gut Wulfsdorf ) in Ahrensburg near Hamburg. The Sea Bird of the Year campaign highlights new threats that define sea bird protection today.

history

The Schlüttsiel information center on Hauke-Haien-Koog has existed since 1980.
The bird protection islands Scharhörn (in front) and Nighörn

The name giver for the club was the then German Hallig Jordsand east of List on Sylt in the Wadden Sea . It formed the association's first bird sanctuary . While the Hallig was still populated with two farms in the 17th and 18th centuries, it was placed under nature protection in 1907. After the First World War , Hallig Jordsand belonged to Denmark from 1920 . The Danish Ornithological Association continued bird watching. Due to progressive erosion , Jordsand has not formed a Hallig since 2001, but only a high sand .

In 1909, the association bought Hallig Norderoog , making it the first and so far only German Hallig that belongs to a bird protection association. Jens Wand became Vogelwart on the Hallig in the same year, which he looked after several times until the First World War and almost continuously from 1932 until his death in 1950. He died in the mud flats between Hallig Hooge and Norderoog.

Over the years, the association has been active in nature and landscape protection in many protected areas , which it only partly supervised itself. Today these areas, which the association often pioneered in placing them under protection, are looked after by other nature conservation organizations. These include the following areas:

Protected area Active in the period
Trish 1909-1910
The Bock and the Werder Islands in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania 1909-1910
The elbow 1910-1914
Langenwerder island and the former Poeler protected areas 1910–1926, partly –1927
Messina island near Gdansk 1913
Graswarder 1919
The green island 1929-1939
Grüner Brink on Fehmarn 1938
Priwall sea ​​bird sanctuary 1963-1965
Eidum-Vogelkoje (Sylt) 1968-2008
Hullen bird sanctuary 1970-1976
Hallig Süderoog 1971-1977

organization

Mathias W. Vaagt has chaired the board since 2018. It is made up of elected members of the association. In addition to the board of directors, there are also the general assembly and a multi-member advisory board that advises the board on important association matters.

In addition, there is the youth group, local groups, the group of speakers for the protected areas and the honorary council, which performs representative tasks.

Chairperson

1907-1929 Franz Dietrich
1929-1933 Reinhart Biernatzki
1933-1935 Franz Dietrich
1935-1937 Nicolaus Peters sen.
1937-1938 Herbert Zeidler
1952-1962 Wilhelm Meise
1962-1972 Klaus Stüven
1972-1974 Johann Henning (Emergency Board member)
1974-1976 Joachim Münzing
1976-1979 Uwe Schneider
1979-1990 Gottfried Vauk
1990-1999 Nicolaus Peters jun.
1999-2002 Jörg Ganzhorn
2002-2005 Veit Hennig
2005–2012 Uwe Schneider
2012-2017 Eckart Schrey
2017 Reinhard Schmidt-Moser (resignation in May)

Erika Vauk-Hentzelt (executive chairwoman, † November 21, 2017)

since 2018 Mathias W. Vaagt

tasks

The association primarily looks after several sea bird and nature reserves . A total of 20 reserves (as of 2011) were established on a scientific basis and are protected and constantly looked after. These include the islands of Neuwerk , Nigehörn , Scharhörn , Greifswalder Oie , parts of Helgoland , Sylt and Amrum as well as the Halligen Südfall , Habel and Norderoog.

In particular, there is close cooperation with the two national parks of the Hamburg Wadden Sea and Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea .

To preserve the Hallig Norderoog, the association runs several work camps for young people in the summer months. Bank protection is actively carried out on site to preserve the Hallig. The young people live for two weeks in groups of up to 20 people on the Hallig. During this time they have to do without running warm water; the equipment in their accommodations is limited to tents, gas cookers and a 12-volt battery for charging cell phone batteries. Every year by the young people fascines built and repaired and ditches drawn to the holm edge from erosion by the tide to protect.

The Jordsand association also conducts public relations , environmental education and international youth work. The association has set up a center for environmental education in particular in the House of Nature in Wulfsdorf near Ahrensburg near Hamburg. There are numerous offers for school classes, especially from Hamburg, as well as for other groups and individuals. In 2005, the association was able to acquire the house from the city of Hamburg and ensure that it is preserved mainly through donations . The association's press organ is the magazine Seevögel .

Protected areas of the Jordsand Association

Protected area location Care since description Protective measures
Rantum basin Sylt 1957 Basin created in 1937 as a landing pad for seaplanes, occurrence of the avocet. Protection tasks: control and public relations.
Amrumer Odde Northern tip of Amrum 1941 One of the most southerly breeding areas of the eider , with a remarkable tendency towards displacement of the silver gull by the black-backed gull . Resting and breeding area for numerous other species. NSG since 1936. Protection tasks in the area of ​​observation, documentation and guided tours.
Hauke ​​Haien Koog District of North Friesland, Schlüttsiel 1967 1959 diked Koog. Due to different vegetation, great biodiversity, special importance for duck birds. Primarily public relations.
Habel East of Gröde 1983 Smallest Hallig. Important as a resting and breeding area, especially for the Brent Goose Year-round occupation with a bird warden. Protection tasks especially in the case of observation, documentation and protection against disturbances.
Norderoog Southwest of Hooge 1909 Property of the association since 1909 and the oldest protected area. Significant population of sandwich tern. Protection against disturbances caused by entering the area, in summer work camps to repair the coastal protection facilities.
Norderoogsand West of the Halligen 1968 Second largest outside sand . Dune formation in the north and settlement of the first breeding pairs. Nature reserve since 1968. Measures against disturbances
South fall Southeast of Pellworm 1957 Hallig in the Wadden Sea Primarily visitor tours
Heligoland rock base Heligoland 1983 With 5,184 ha, it is the largest nature reserve in Schleswig-Holstein Visitor tours
Lummenfelsen Heligoland 1980 Rock cliff on the southern side of the western tip of Heligoland. Breeding ground for birds such as guillemots , kittiwakes , fulmar , northern gannets , razorbills and herring gulls Visitor tours
Neuwerk Hamburg Wadden Sea 1982 The sandwich tern has been breeding on Neuwerk for several years Visitor tours
Scharhorn Hamburg Wadden Sea 1939 Island in front of Neuwerk Visitor tours
Ni horns Hamburg Wadden Sea 1989 Artificial island created in 1989. Meanwhile large population of common and arctic terns. Enforcement of the entry ban. Care from Scharhörn.
Mucous mouth Baltic coast of Schleswig-Holstein 1922 The protected area is made up of the areas of the pilot island and the Olpenitz sand pit (part of the former Olpenitz naval base) on both sides of the estuary Monitoring
Seagull Mountain Schleswig 1991 Entering the island is prohibited Monitoring
Greifswalder Oie Baltic Sea 1993 In the island station, which is looked after all year round, there is no connection to the energy and water network. Ringing of thousands of migratory birds during the spring and autumn migration
Görmitz Usedom 2002 Peninsulas, former vacation property for employees of the Lubmin nuclear power plant Monitoring
Black barrel sand Lower Elbe 1973 Important as a resting area, 34 breeding bird species (2006). Since the 1970s development from a silt bank to an island, corresponding changes in fauna and flora. Nature reserve since 1985.
Woodlice sand Kehdingen 1994 particularities Monitoring
House of nature with a park Ahrensburg 1981 Office of the association, park recognized nature experience area with nature experience path. Public relations and environmental education offers.
Ahrensburg tunnel valley Ahrensburg 1984 560 hectare nature reserve since 1978 or 1982, FFH area. Special importance of the geomorphological forms of an Ice Age tunnel valley. Landscape maintenance, renaturation, design of the route.
Höltigbaum Hamburg 1996 Former military training area. Refuge for skylarks, wheatear, corncrake and red-backed shrimp. Occurrence of numerous species of locusts and many species of moths Under protection in 1997, Schutzgemeinschaft from Jordsand, NABU , Protection of German Forests and Nature Conservation Foundation Schleswig-Holstein . Implementation of the protection ordinance, landscape maintenance and public relations.
Hoisdorf ponds Hoisdorf 1988 6 artificially created fish ponds, the area is of particular importance as a resting place and for seabirds from the order of the grebes No classic care due to the fishing industry.
Ruden Island Greifswalder Bodden 2015 Island in the mouth of the Peene River in front of the Baltic Sea coast belonging to Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Located in the immediate vicinity of Greifswalder Oie. nature conservation care

Subsidiary organizations

The youth group Naturschutzjugend Jordsand (NJJ) has existed since 1980, and since 1986 the Institute for Nature Conservation and Environmental Research of the Jordsand Association (INUF).

Others

  • Occasionally the association uses the slightly different name, Verein Jordsand for the protection of sea birds and nature. V.

Awards

literature

  • 90 years of the Jordsand association. In: SEEBÖGEL . tape 18 , issue, 1997, ISSN  0722-2947 .
  • 100 years of seabird protection on German coasts. In: SEEBÖGEL . tape 28 , issue, 2007, ISSN  0722-2947 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Statutes of the Jordsand Association for the Protection of Sea Birds and Nature eV , March 21, 2015