Jordsand Association
| Jordsand Association for the Protection of Sea Birds and Nature V. | |
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| 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 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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
- From 1975 conscientious objectors could do their community service at the Jordsand association. As early as 1989, the club offered one of the first the possibility of a voluntary ecological year (FÖJ) in nature to make and since 1997 there is also the possibility of a European Year of Volunteering as part of the European Voluntary Service (European Voluntary Service) in Jordsand abzuleisten . Since the abolition of compulsory military service in Germany , the association has relied on participants in the federal voluntary service and increasingly on voluntary helpers.
- 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 .