📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
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💼 What the programme involves
Your project will be forest and conservation work with the Lower Saxony Forest Office in Oldendorf. You will be helping to cut free newly planted trees so that they have enough light and space to grow. There will also be some maintenance work on the younger forest expanses. Besides this, your group will restoring paths, building or repairing leisure facilities and cultivation gates, as well as helping out with any other current work going on in the forest. You will be working in rotating small groups and will have the opportunity to discover the surrounding nature with the foresters, whilst receiving lots of background information about the forest itself as a habitat.
🏠 Accommodation on site
You will be staying in the church community centre in Fischbeck. You will prepare and cook meals in small groups.
📍 About the location
The small community of Fischbeck lies between the towns of Hameln and Hess. Oldendorf (both around 7km away). The “Rat Catching Town” of Hameln (www.hameln.de) has to offer its historical town, a glass-blowing workshop, rat catching games and a variety of museums for shopping and cultural exploration. There is an outdoor swimming pool in Hess. Oldendorf (www.hessisch-oldendorf.de) and a barbecue area in Fischbeck. You could visit the Schillat caverns ( www.schillathoehle.de). If you are interested in climate protection and sustainability, then it's worth taking a trip to the adventure forest in Schönhagen (www.erlebniswald.de).
⚠️ Requirements
You should bring waterproof clothing and hiking boots with you!
ℹ️ Additional information
You can find more information about the Forest Office here: http://www.landesforsten.de/Niedersaechsisches-Forstamt-Oldendorf.242.0.html