📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The National Nature Park Hunsrueck-Hochwald is the newest German National Park to protect the nature. The park was just founded in 2015. The landscape is dominated by huge forests, steep hills, small brooks and ponds, rocks and marshes. Only small hamlets interrupt the nature, a perfect region for plenty of different species but also for hiking. Within this National Park you will work under the supervision of a Park Ranger to care for special marshes situated on the slopes of the hill. These marshes were drained with ditches in the last century to use it as forests. With different measures to bring back the special character of this place and keep the water in the marshes. Many different species (especially amphibians and special plants) already returned. This workcamp will continue this mission and will take place in cooperation with the National Nature Park Hunsrueck-Hochwald and the Foundation for Nature and Environment Rhineland-Palatinate. For more information about the National Park please visit: http://www.nationalpark-hunsrueck-hochwald.de/en.html
💼 What the programme involves
The main task will be in the marshes: Under the supervision of a Park Ranger you will realise different measures to keep the water in the marshes and to undo the drainage of the area by blocking or filling ditches or by building small wooden barriers. Some other tasks within the National Nature Reserve will be added to make your tasks more diverse. You will be hiking along the Hunsruecksteig trail, check the marking of the trail, and clean it from trash and broken markings. Attention: The work might be physically hard, you will be hiking on some days and you will get wet and muddy for sure Please bring hiking boots, rubber boots and working clothes.
🏠 Accommodation on site
You will stay in the village community centre of Deuselbach, a small village with 260 inhabitants in the centre of the Nature Park. The centre offers one huge room for sleeping, a living room with bar and a professional kitchen. Camp beds will be provided. There are several showers and space outside to have a rest, make a barbecue or do some sports. The village is quite isolated without any further infrastructure and surrounded by forest and meadows: The next bigger village called Thalfang is about 6 km far.
📍 About the location
The workcamp will take places in the western part of Rhineland-Palatinate. You will stay close to Thalfang, a village with 1.700 inhabitants offering everything you need (shops, pubs, swimming pool-). There are also many tourists in the area as it is well known for hiking all over the year and for skiing in winter. The next bigger city it Trier (50 km), the oldest Germany city with many Roman sights, a huge cathedral and plenty of this to do (vineyard, shopping, clubs-). But due to the poor public transport the number of excursions will be very limited.
⚠️ Requirements
This is a special project for nature lovers and people interested in nature protection work. You will get wet and dirty.
ℹ️ Additional information
This is a special project for nature lovers and people interested in nature protection work. You will get wet and dirty.