Association for nature and bird protection in the Hochsauerlandkreis

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Excursion of the association
The club's own Red Höhenvieh in the Hemmeker Bruch nature reserve
Maintenance work, here raking off cuttings, in the eastern part of the Wulsenberg nature reserve
Inauguration of the Hohenwibbecke species protection tower
Forest chopper chops, on the edge of the association's own nature reserve Vor'm Hängeberg , distant spruces and bushes
Members of the VNV at work in the Graefenberg nature reserve

The Association for Nature and Bird Protection in the Hochsauerland District , VNV for short , is a nature conservation association in the Hochsauerland District (HSK) in North Rhine-Westphalia. It has about 600 members. Its headquarters are in Arnsberg and the office is in the main building of the Bredelar Monastery in Marsberg - Bredelar . The association was founded in 1981. Periodicals of the club are the false spirits .

Club work

Since it was founded, the association has been involved in national and national mapping of breeding bird species, vascular plants, amphibians, reptiles, grasshoppers, butterflies and snails. In the 1990s, the biotope mapping in the Hochsauerlandkreis (HSK) was revised on behalf of the State Institute for Ecology, Land Management and Forests in North Rhine-Westphalia . For selected nature reserves, the first maintenance and development plans for the Hochsauerlandkreis were drawn up in coordination with the Lower Landscape Authority.

As a member of the Regional Association for Nature Conservation and Environment (LNU), the VNV prepares statements on all procedures in accordance with Section 29 (now Section 58) of the Federal Nature Conservation Act , i.e. interventions in nature and the landscape such as road construction processes, water developments, etc. The VNV has initiated the designation of regionally and nationally significant nature reserves in the HSK. The designation of the European bird sanctuary Medebacher Bucht is based on an application by the VNV.

The association maintains and looks after areas with a size of approx. 500 ha throughout the HSK. A large part of this area was purchased by the North Rhine-Westphalia Foundation for Nature Conservation, Heritage and Cultural Preservation (NRW Foundation) at the request of the VNV . These areas are looked after by the association on behalf of the foundation. Other areas are owned by the VNV or have been leased. The areas of the association are usually particularly valuable from a species and biotope protection point of view, such as heaths, grasslands and wet meadows, which are located in nature reserves (NSG), natural monuments (ND) and landscape protection areas (LSG). Since 1984, from July to the end of February, work assignments have been carried out every 14 days in valuable habitats such as wet meadows, heaths and grasslands.

The Wulsenberg nature reserve is one of the association's care areas. One of the individual projects is the preservation of the Rote Höhenviehs . The association owns its own herd of approx. 30 Red Höhenvieh animals. The Ornithological Working Group (OAG) prepares an annual report.

In 2014, VNV took over the Sundern-Hohenwibbecke transformer station, built in 1946, where electricity from the medium-voltage network with a voltage of 10,000 volts was converted into household electricity, as Westnetz , currently a subsidiary of innogy, formerly RWE , replaced the tower transformer station with a compact, small transformer. On October 11, 2019, Westnetz officially handed over the tower station, which has now been converted into a species protection tower, to the VNV. The VNV received the RWE environmental protection award of the city of Sundern 2015 for the Hohenwibbecke species protection tower project.

Memberships and collaboration

The VNV is a member of various other associations:

The VNV is also a partner of NABU -NRW in the Hochsauerlandkreis.

The VNV provides representatives for the nature conservation advisory board , formerly the landscape advisory board, the HSK and the hunting advisory board of the HSK and in the sponsoring association of the nature conservation center -Biological Station- Hochsauerlandkreis.

Awards

Since 1990 the association has received numerous environmental awards from cities in the Hochsauerland. In 2013 the VNV received the WegWeiser award from the NRW Foundation for its commitment to nature conservation.

literature

  • Association for nature and bird protection in the HSK (Hrsg.): Handbook of nature: Animal and plant world in the Hochsauerland 1998, ISBN 3-00-003345-9
  • Richard Götte, Association for Nature and Bird Protection in the Hochsauerlandkreis (Hrsg.): Flora in the eastern Sauerland. 2007. ISBN 978-3-00-021099-0
  • VNV: 25 years of VNV - insight, insight, outlook (PDF; 1.85 MB) Anniversary issue Irrgeister Volume 23, 2006.
  • Harald Legge: “Natural treasures that need to be preserved” SAUERLAND 1/2017, pp. 13–15.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ NRW Foundation: Wulsenberg near Marsberg.
  2. ↑ Project "Rotes Höhenvieh"
  3. ↑ Martin Lindner: Hohenwibbecke species protection tower officially handed over to VNV Irrgeister 36, 2019: 23.
  4. ↑ VNV buys transformer tower for one Euro Westfalenpost from November 25, 2019
  5. ↑ Harald Legge: Gute Naturschutznachrichten 2012. Irrgeister 2012/20: 51-52.
  6. ↑ NRW Foundation: Guide to nature conservation. The NRW Foundation 2013 / No. 3: p 30

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Coordinates: 51 ° 25 ′ 4 ″  N , 8 ° 46 ′ 21 ″  E