📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
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💼 What the programme involves
Together with the Wesel Biological Station, you ll be undertaking many different conservation tasks. You ll be helping on a project which is supported by the LIFE European Conservation Fund, by preserving historical oak forests, moors, heaths and sand grassland. Amongst other things, this project is about removing invasive, non-resident plant species so that the natural community of species can be restored. Depending on your interests, the Biological Station can organise guided nature tours such as a boat trip or an observation of bats.
🏠 Accommodation on site
You ll be staying in a simple house which is in an idyllic, but remote, location in the forest. You ll cook your own meals together.
📍 About the location
You ll be living in the middle of the forest, where you ll be able to sit together around a camp fire in the evenings and have a barbecue. The nearest town (Schermbeck) is about 25 minutes away on foot (1.5km). From there you can go on hikes, bicycles tours or canoeing on the Lippe river. In the surrounding areas you could visit the Colonia Ulpia Traiana i the third-biggest Roman town north of the Alps and Germany s largest archaeological outdoor museum. You can go on day-trips to the cities of Essen, Dortmund, Cologne, Dusseldorf or Munster. The Hanseatic town of Wesel also offers many free-time opportunities. In the first weekend of August there is a large city festival with a lot of live music and fairs taking place.
ℹ️ Additional information
The work can sometimes be physically demanding.