Lüneburg Heath Wildlife Park
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| motto | Adventure nature with wolf, bear & co | |
| place | Am Wildpark 1 Nindorf 21271 Hanstedt |
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| surface | 61 hectares | |
| opening | 1970 | |
| Animal species | 140 | |
| Individuals | 1200 | |
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| management | Managing directors Norbert Tietz and Alexander Tietz | |
| Sponsorship | Wildlife Park Lüneburg Heath Tietz KG | |
| Funding organizations | Species Protection Wildlife Park Lüneburger Heide e. V. | |
 Siberian tiger Alex |
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| http://www.wild-park.de/ | ||
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Coordinates: 53 ° 14 ′ 12.1 ″ N , 10 ° 2 ′ 39.5 ″ E
The Lüneburger Heide wildlife park is a wildlife park near Hanstedt -Nindorf in the Harburg district in Lower Saxony . The park is home to around 1200 animals from over 130 species on an area of 61 hectares.
history
Georg-Friedrich von Krogh founded the Lüneburg Heath Wildlife Park in 1970 as a family and led him up to the year 1989. At that time there was in the Lüneburg Heath Wildlife Park already moose , Kodiak bears and European brown bears . In the course of time, the original wildlife park became a zoo with the official name "Lüneburger Heide Hanstedt-Nindorf Wildlife Park". The Tietz family has been running the Lüneburg Heath Wildlife Park as a family business since 1989. In 2012 the Wildpark Lüneburger Heide is a limited partnership with the name "Wildpark Lüneburger Heide Tietz KG", which is run by the managing directors Norbert Tietz and Alexander Tietz and employs around 150 people during the season.
profile
The Lüneburg Heath Wildlife Park tries to show the approx. 140 species of wild animals kept in their natural habitat. Keeping them within a forest area should enable the animals to behave as typical of the wilderness as possible. The location in the Lüneburg Heath is also intended to bring the animal world and nature closer to the visitors. For this purpose, visitors are also given direct contact with the animals within the petting zoo.
The concept of the wildlife park includes nature and environmental education. This concept is to be implemented in seminars, workshops and lessons in the zoo school, in natural history exhibitions as well as through guided tours and bird of prey shows and in the daily animal presentations.
falconry
Two raptor shows take place on the bird of prey meadow every day. Eagles, falcons, buzzards, vultures and owls are shown here in flight.
Various owls are exhibited in aviaries above the bird of prey meadow. Otherwise, visitors will find other birds of prey such as giant sea eagles and bald eagles on the park's circular path. Flight demonstrations take place from spring to autumn.
On behalf of the State Office for Ecology, the Lüneburg Heath Wildlife Park has been one of Lower Saxony's rescue stations for injured birds of prey since 1999. The accidental birds of prey are looked after, nursed back to health and released back into nature if they are fit to fly.
Animal presentations
From March to October the wildlife park shows the following regular presentations:
- "Tiger lecture" about the two Siberian tigers Alex and Ronja and their habitat.
- Hunters of the air can be experienced at the birds of prey show.
- Fascination with wolves : Tanja Askani, wolf specialist, author and supervisor of the wolves in the wildlife park describes the fascinating world of wolves.
- The otter feeding
Conservation breeding program
The zoo participates together with the Friends of Species Conservation Wildlife Park Lüneburger Heide e. V. (1st chairman Norbert Tietz) at the European Conservation Breeding Program (EEP) for otters , Red-crowned cranes , European white-tailed eagles , snow leopards , musk ox , mink and bison . He also takes part in various resettlement projects, e.g. B. the release of the lynx in the Harz National Park.
TV programs produced in the wildlife park
The Lüneburg Heath Wildlife Park hosted the episodes of the zoo documentary series Soft fur and sharp claws produced by NDR . Since April 10, 2007, the wildlife park has had its own series with Wolf, Bär & Co. on NDR. 30 episodes were shot from March 2006 to September 2006. Each of the 30 episodes is about 50 minutes long. The series was produced by NDR Naturfilm and Studio Hamburg Documentaries.
The 30 episodes of the series were first broadcast from April 10, 2007 to May 23, 2007.
Griffon vulture "Gybsy" at the flight demonstration
Boar piglets
Tiger Alex
Pygmy goat in a petting zoo
Awards
- 2011: DERTOUR awarded the Lüneburg Heath Wildlife Park the Golden Pine for the best customer orientation out of all 23 tested facilities at German leisure and adventure parks. The golden pine is awarded annually by DERTOUR for the best amusement parks in Germany. The jury is made up of several hundred travel agents. They visit the parks and test the offers and then submit their evaluation sheets.
Wolf sanctuary
Since December 2016, the Wolf Center in Dörverden has been recognized as the second wolf sanctuary in the State of Lower Saxony alongside the Lüneburg Heath Wildlife Park.
literature
- Eckard Gehm: Snow leopard (Uncia uncia). Spirit of the mountains. 1st edition. Verlag Wildpark Lüneburger Heide, Hanstedt-Nindorf, 2002, ISBN 3-00-009603-5 (German / English)
- Tanja Askani: Wolf tracks. The woman who lives with the wolves. AT Verlag, 2004, ISBN 3-85502-979-2 .
- Lüneburg Heath Wildlife Park (Ed.): Wildlife Park Guide. Wildlife Park Guide. 40 years of the wildlife park. Zoo guide. Nindorf undated (2010/2011). 74 pages, cover picture: Siberian tiger.
- Lüneburg Heath Wildlife Park (publisher): Lüneburg Heath Wildlife Park Nindorf-Hanstedt. Explore the wild. Zoo guide. undated (approx. 2003). 74 pages, cover picture: Snow leopard.
- Lüneburg Heath Wildlife Park (publisher): Lüneburg Heath Wildlife Park Nindorf-Hanstedt. Zoo guide. 30 years of the Lüneburg Heath Wildlife Park. undated (2000). 74 pages, cover picture: Bear and Tiger.
- Lüneburg Heath Wildlife Park (publisher): Lüneburg Heath Wildlife Park Nindorf-Hanstedt. Zoo guide. undated (approx. 1990). 56 pages, cover picture: Little Brown Bear.
- Lüneburg Heath Wildlife Park (Ed.): Lüneburg Heath Wildlife Park Hanstedt-Nindorf. Zoo guide. undated (about 1986). 64 pages, cover picture: Wolf behind a tree trunk on the right edge of the picture.
- Lüneburg Heath Wildlife Park (Ed.): Lüneburg Heath Wildlife Park Hanstedt-Nindorf. Zoo guide. undated (about 1986). 64 pages, cover picture: Timberwolf.
- Günther Schulze, Georg Friedrich von Krogh: Wildlife Park Lüneburg Heath Hanstedt-Nindorf. Zoo guide. Ed .: Lüneburg Heath Wildlife Park. undated (around 1985). 52 pages.
- Georg Friedrich von Krogh: Lüneburg Heath Wildlife Park . Zoo guide. Ed .: Lüneburg Heath Wildlife Park. undated (around 1980). 32 pages, cover picture: Luchs.
- Wildlife Park Lüneburger Heide (Ed.): Wildlife Park Lüneburg Heath . Zoo guide. undated (around 1981), 44 pages, cover picture: 2 brown bears.
- Wildlife Park Lüneburger Heide (Ed.): Wildlife Park Lüneburg Heath . Zoo guide. Untitled (1970s), 32 pages, cover picture: Deer in front of a heathland.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Imprint ( Memento of the original from May 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ wild-park.de ( Memento of the original from May 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Tanja Askani: Wolf Traces. The woman who lives with the wolves. AT Verlag, 2004, ISBN 3-85502-979-2 .
- ↑ wild-park.de ( Memento of the original from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ filmography
- ↑ source. ( Memento of the original from April 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Wolfcenter Dörverden recognized as the second wolf sanctuary , press release of the Lower Saxony State Office for Water Management, Coastal and Nature Conservation , December 19, 2016. Accessed December 20, 2016. "Injured or sick wolves can be cared for briefly in the facility and then released again become."
