Helping to build and maintain climate-stable forests of the future

Name: Helping to build and maintain climate-stable forests of the future
Start: 2024-06-30
End: 2024-07-13
Location: Allendorf, Germany

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About the project

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

The ijgd has been organising volunteer service programmes since 1949. We are an independent, non-profit association for international youth work, a recognised independent youth welfare organisation, and one of the largest and oldest workcamp organisations in Germany. Each year, we assist around 5,000 young people into volunteer work in Germany and abroad. We give them the opportunity to be creative, act in solidarity, take responsibility for themselves, and discover their own true potential and strengths. Our principles: Ecological learning, voluntary contribution, self-organisation, social development, intercultural learning, gender equality, anti-racism/anti-discrimination and political education. Follow us on Instagram ijgd_workcamps Facebook @ijgd.workcamps

💼 What the programme involves

Your help is needed with various forest and nature conservation tasks: Firstly, you will be informed about the ecological relationships between forests, wildlife and climate change. Climate change has already had a dramatic impact on the forest in recent years. Many trees have died due to drought, bark beetles and storms. To preserve the forests, many hundreds of thousands of young trees are planted every year. You will help to protect and care for these young trees, e.g. by pruning them, but also by helping to create irrigation opportunities and set protective gates. A second focus is on nature conservation work, be it the maintenance of forest meadows, the selection of habitat trees or the maintenance of forest edges. Important: During the workcamp, the work in the forest may change depending on the weather.

🏠 Accommodation on site

Accomodation: community centre in Allendorf Food: You cook together. Money for the food shopping is provided to you. Vegetarian or vegan meals are possible. Please indicate any allergies when registering.

📍 About the location

There are numerous excursion possibilities: The university cities of Marburg and Kassel, as well as the half-timbered towns in the surrounding area are also attractive for day trips. The Edersee region offers various leisure activities such as swimming in the natural outdoor pool, hiking in the primeval forest trail, climbing and archery. The Kellerwald National Park, including a visitor centre, is also in the immediate vicinity.

⚠️ Requirements

The work is physically demanding. You must bring sturdy shoes and weatherproof work clothes for the activities in the forest! Safety instructions for working in the forest must be observed