Schweizer Moore und Moorlandschaften haben Seltenheitswert. Dies allein rechtfertigt schon ihren bedingungslosen Schutz. Dank des "Rothenthurm"-Artikels der Bundesverfassung, das Ergebnis einer Volksabstimmung über eine ...

Es werden Aufgaben und Ziele der von der Torf- und Humuswirtschaft im westlichen Teil der Bundesrepublik getragenen Institutionen erläutert. Des weiteren wird die Struktur und gegenwärtige Situation dieses Wirtschaftszweiges ...

Abstract: Within the framework of projects of renaturation in many raised bogs in Schleswig-Holstein birches have been cut and pulled out, but with varying success. Several studies and observations of many years result ...

Abstract: The results of the recording of fens of the Müritz National Park (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) are presented. From 2003 to 2005 435 fens, covering an area of 3.708,9 ha (11,5 % of the area of the National Park), ...

In Mecklenburg-Vorpommern sind 13 % der Landesfläche mit Mooren bedeckt, was etwa 293.000 ha entspricht (LENSCHOW 1997). Mecklenburg-Vorpommern ist in Bezug auf seine Landesfläche damit das moorreichste Bundesland ...

Abstract: The long-term goals of fen restoration include climate, water, and natural areas protection. Depending on the characteristics of fen under consideration (size, landscape position, previous land use, current ...

Abstract: In the 1970s, the Emsland Moormuseum was founded by the homeland association of Geeste-Groß Hesepe. In many working hours the members of the association have built up the museum and have restored the machines ...

Abstract: The program for protection of peatland in Schleswig-Holstein with an area of 192.000 ha includes all peatsoils of raised bogs and fens and all biotopes and grassland on peat. Aiming to develop biodiversity as ...

Abstract: Mire conservation goes back over 100 years in Germany and Lower Saxony. The initial focus was on the cultivation and use of peatlands. It took another 80 years for the idea of peatland protection to mature into ...