📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
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💼 What the programme involves
Your accommodation in Hahnenhof is in the middle of the Palatinate Forest biosphere reserve. Surrounded by mountains and a wonderfully densely wooded landscape, you will be picked up by the forester and taken to work. In the Palatinate Forest you will be working on forestry and conservation - taking care of young forest stands, removing small trees alongside the brook so that the native trees have more space to grow, and building protective fences for different types of cultivation. For this, you will be working with hand saws, hammers, nails, shovels, axes and spades. You will also be removing non-resident species of plants (Neophytes), in order to protect the natural biocoenosis. With shovels and axes, you will be building gullies across paths and pruning branches. Deer stands and fences will also be built.
🏠 Accommodation on site
You ll be staying in shared rooms in a leisure centre. You ll cook your own meals together.
📍 About the location
n this camp your primary free-time activity is to simply be amongst nature - to go for walks and to visit nearby castles. Bicycles are available for everyone. There are great opportunities for climbing the Dahn cliffs. In the biosphere house, you can learn a great deal about forest ecosystems. There is also a meadow, in which you can play games, and a campfire next to the accommodation. If the weather is nice, you can take a swim in the 2 natural lakes nearby. In Bad Bergzabern and in Dahn there are outdoor swimming pools and cafes. You could go on an excursion to France (Strasbourg) or Karlsruhe, Speyer and Mannheim, but these kinds of trips are only possible over the weekend.
ℹ️ Additional information
Notes: This camp is kindly supported by Johnson Controls. The accommodation is in the largest wooded area of central Europe. The nearest town is located 10km away.