Conservation and welfare - Work in nature and community

Landscape and village care are what to expect from this camp in the north of Germany. You work 6,5 hours a day, from Monday to Thursday. In the first week you work together with your international group in the Nordoer Heide, a nature reserve with inland dunes, heaths, dry grasslands and adjacent forest and green areas. Parts of the area are grazed with robust animals such as Galloways and Highlands as well as wild horses and goats to prevent bush encroachment and to suppress existing trees. The work you will be doing has the same purpose. You remove plants in order to ensure light and air for special plants and animals whose home the dunes and heaths are. You will, for example, remove black berries, which overgrow the rare healing plant arnica or the foreign North American bird cherry, which shade the habitat of butterflies. You will learn much about the protection of rare habitats, such as inland dunes and heather, in theory and practice. In the second week you will also do various work in the community of Kremperheide. Among other things, you will collect rubbish and maintain green areas as well as playgrounds. In the nature reserve you will keep up walking trails by clearing of vegetation, maintaining of path signs and the grinding and painting of benches and tables.