Black Forest Experience Lauterbach

Name: Black Forest Experience Lauterbach
Start: 2022-07-09
End: 2022-07-24
Location: Lauterbach, Germany

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About the project

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

It is the 13th time that the community of Lauterbach and a local Landscape Development Association invite an internaitonal workcamp! Above all, the local hosts are very happy to be supported by a workcamp at different environmental and construction tasks in a nature protection area! Not only is your help valuable to them but they are also very happy to share their knowledge about forest preservation to foreign volunteers. By volunteering in this project, you are actively protecting nature and biodiversity (UN SDG 15).

💼 What the programme involves

Help the community in Lauterbach take care of their beautiful forest! The forest is wide and your precious help will be needed for a variety of tasks related to nature conservation. During this work camp you will be working in the forest to maintain a hiking trail and you will be completing other tasks including: • removing so-called “neophytes“ (invasive non-native vegetation) from the nature protection area; • cleaning and clearing of vegetation in biotopes like ponds. • You may also repair fences and maintain grasslands around fruit trees. Be prepared for hard physical work! Due to working in swampy and steep areas (ponds), rubber boots and/or sturdy shoes are necessary for working effectively!

🏠 Accommodation on site

The workcamp group of volunteers will stay in a nice community house in the middle of the forest, where you can find sanitary facilities, showers, a common room with sofas and tables and a well-equipped kitchen. Have a look at their website here. There are 4 multi-bed rooms for you. As the house is located in a very rural area, it is likely that there will not be access to internet and no coverage for mobile phones. Just be prepared to spend two wonderful, adventurous weeks away from your busy and usual everyday life. Your group of volunteers will be responsible for grocery shopping and cooking together. The food will be bought with the camp budget and everybody will take turns for cooking and cleaning. In order to reduce our carbon footprint on the planet, we encourage volunteers to reduce meat and try more sustainable dishes.

📍 About the location

Lauterbach is situated in the heart of the Black Forest nature park, close to Schramberg and the town of Rottweil. You will have many possibilities to hike and experience nature first hand. Just step out the door and find yourself surrounded by beautiful landscapes! In your free time, you will have the possibility to go to the swimming or to visit cities like Rottweil or Freiburg.

⚠️ Requirements

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, all volunteers need to be either fully vaccinated (2 to 3 shots of one of the following vaccines: BioNtech/Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca or Johnson&Johnson) or recovered (date of infection must be at least 28 days old and max 90 days old).

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