The Danube Gorge between Weltenburg Abbey and the Lower Bavarian town of Kelheim is one of the most popular destinations in Bavaria. Thousands of tourists and day visitors travel there in the summer months - especially on large and small passenger ships on the river, which squeezes through imposing rock formations here. The rush is now too much for environmentalists and fishermen. The State Association for the Protection of Birds (LBV), the Union for Nature Conservation (BN) and the State...
By Heike A. Batzer, AllingAccess is always open. The swallow flies in at lightning speed, makes a small circle and flies out again. Then she comes back. Sits on an electric wire leading to a lamp. And stay there for now. The swallows have found a home in the stables on the outskirts of the municipality of Alling. A home for raising their young. It used to be common for them to do this in stables. But because there are...
It has been two months since a search team made up of bird experts from the Landesbund für Vogelschutz (LBV) and a mountain guide recovered bones, feathers, a GPS transmitter and a leg ring in an extremely steep and impassable rock gully in the Wetterstein Mountains. It was finally clear that Wally, the bearded vulture, was dead. And the LBV people around the biologist Toni Wegscheider puzzled over how it could be that an extremely fit bird of prey, which...
The chairman of the State Association for Bird Protection (LBV), Norbert Schäffer, warns against trying to prevent a national park in the Steigerwald by building wind turbines. "We are an environmental association and clearly in favor of wind power," said Schäffer. "But anyone who thinks they can set up wind turbines in ecologically valuable forests or even in the area of a potential national park will meet our strongest opposition." From Schäffer's point of view, there is enough space for...
The chairman of the State Association for Bird Protection (LBV), Norbert Schäffer, warns against trying to prevent a national park in the Steigerwald by building wind turbines. "We are an environmental association and clearly in favor of wind power," said Schäffer. "But anyone who thinks they can set up wind turbines in ecologically valuable forests or even in the area of a potential national park will meet our strongest resistance." From Schäffer's point of view, there is enough space for...
Nature conservation groups no longer want new hydropower plants to be built in Bavaria and are calling for a renaturation offensive in rivers. The importance of small hydropower plants in terms of the energy industry is being exaggerated and their negative effects on water bodies and biodiversity are being ignored, criticized the Bund Naturschutz in Bayern, the Landesbund für Vogelschutz, the Landesfischereiverband, WWF Deutschland and the Bavarian Canoe Association on Monday.Warnings from the state government that cuts in the small...
The State Association for Bird Protection (LBV) and the Bavarian Species Protection Center are looking for bird-friendly gardens in Bavaria. According to the Ministry of the Environment, everyone can make an important contribution to biodiversity with gardens or balconies that are designed to be close to nature. Minister Thorsten Faithr (FW) is patron of the campaign. "Everyone can make their contribution to more species protection. We can start on our own doorstep," said Glauber, according to a statement on Monday....
Open detailed viewLike here near Ebrach, two-thirds of the Steigerwald consists of beeches. (Photo: Sebastian Beck)Ancient beeches that soar 40 meters into the sky like the mighty pillars of a cathedral, quiet meadow valleys through which natural streams meander, and ravine forests whose slopes are so steep that forestry there is not worthwhile. There are also rare species such as the black woodpecker, the wild cat and the Bechstein's bat. This is the Steigerwald, a quiet forest area with gentle...
The Landesbund für Vogelschutz (LBV) likes to boast of being Bavaria's oldest nature conservation organization. In fact, its history dates back to 1909, making the LBV four years older than the Bund Naturschutz. The LBV was founded by Prince Regent Luitpold as the "State Authorized Commission for Bird Protection in Royal Bavaria". On Monday, the head of the LBV, Norbert Schäffer, and the director of the main state archive in Munich, Bernhard Grau, signed a so-called archiving agreement. The main...
The dispute over a new commercial area in the Upper Palatinate town of Teublitz is an example of how hardened the fronts are in the debate about surface consumption. Now he also stands for the fact that municipalities sometimes want to push through contested projects even if the highest courts have declared that they are violating the applicable law.It is just half a year ago that the Bavarian Administrative Court (VGH) rejected the project. In the verdict, the judges not...
