The landscape ecologist and senior employee in the Bavarian Ministry of the Environment, Ursula Schuster, will become the new head of the Bavarian Forest National Park. Environment Minister Thorsten Glauber said this in Munich on Tuesday. "I am very pleased that in Schuster we have been able to gain a highly competent new manager for our national park in the Bavarian Forest," said Glauber. "The national park has been a flagship for nature conservation for more than 50 years. With...
The destruction of the Rappenalpbach heats up spirits - not only in the Allgäu, but far beyond. Biologist Christine Margraf explains why the case is attracting so much attention.The investigations by the authorities and the Kempten public prosecutor's office are still ongoing. The legal disputes will also drag on for a long time. But one thing is already certain: the destruction of the Rappenalpbach in the Oberallgäu Alps is one of the worst natural crimes in Bavaria in recent years....
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The natural outrage in the Rappenalptal south of Oberstdorf is now also occupying the state government and the state parliament. "The Allgäu High Alps are a very special region, not just for tourists and day-trippers," said Environment Minister Thorsten Faithr (FW) during an on-site visit on Wednesday. "But also as a habitat for chamois, marmots and other special species." Glauber was affected by the destruction caused by the dredging and leveling of the Rappenalpbach. "What was a freely meandering mountain...
The nature outrage in the Oberallgäu Rappenalptal is now occupying the Kempten public prosecutor's office. According to senior public prosecutor Sebastian Murer, the investigating authority has initiated preliminary investigations. The aim is therefore to clarify who exactly is responsible for the obviously illegal river construction measures in the former natural jewel. In addition, Environment Minister Thorsten Faithr (free voters) has announced that he will personally see the destruction in the protected area in the southernmost tip of Germany. "We take...
The Bund Naturschutz in Bayern (BN) welcomes the guide "City trees in Bavaria in times of climate change" presented by Environment Minister Thorsten Faithr (Freie Wahler), but the document does not go far enough. For a meaningful implementation of the guideline, mandatory tree protection regulations are needed in the municipalities, said BN chairman Richard Mergner on Thursday, according to the announcement: "Otherwise the guideline should be understood more as an appeal."Currently, just under 100 of the more than 2,000 towns...
It's a start for Sepp Glatz. "Now it's official that we can't protect our cattle, sheep and other livestock on the alpine pastures from attacks by wolves," says the farmer from Garmisch-Partenkirchen, who, as chairman of the Upper Bavarian Alpine Association, is the top alpine farmer in the Free State. For years, Glatz and his colleagues have vehemently opposed wolves settling in the Bavarian mountains. From their point of view, the livestock on the alpine pastures are helplessly at the...
The State Association for Bird Protection (LBV) has a new name in the future - State Association for Bird and Nature Conservation. This was decided by the delegates at their meeting on Saturday in Amberg. There was no change in the management of the association: Norbert Schäffer remains chairman. "Bird protection will always remain an important core task of our activities, but the use of the LBV can be seen in all areas of nature conservation," Schäffer explained the name...
According to Environment Minister Thorsten Faithr, the Free State of Bavaria should in future produce renewable energies itself. "The brutal war of aggression in Ukraine shows that we have to rethink the energy supply of the future. We need a revolution in the energy sector," said the Free Voter politician on Thursday in Munich. The triad must be: "From Bavaria, in Bavaria and for Bavaria. The central task is security of supply for people and the economy. In particular, the...
The largest reservoir in Lower Franconia, which is currently empty due to renovation work, is being dammed up again. On Thursday, the outflow of the Ellertshäuser See was closed again. However, water did not collect directly: the reservoir should only be filled by precipitation such as rain and snow. Bathers will probably not be able to use it again until 2024 at the earliest.The reservoir near Stadtlauringen in the Schweinfurt district, which is normally up to 16 meters deep, has...