📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
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💼 What the programme involves
Landscape conservation in a beautiful environment and sightseeing in the big city!
With this camp on the outskirts of Hamburg you can combine both! Your day's work is in the Fischbeker heathland, an about 770 hectare wide nature conservation area in the southwest of Hamburg. To protect and preserve the heathland, non-native plants (mainly pine trees) have to be removed (by hand). The main purpose of this work is to preserve the special wildlife and vegetation of the heathland – for example saving over 200 types of insects from extinction. Apart from this main task there, you will also close off illegal trails and seed new heath there. In addition, you will cross over to the riverine island Neßsand and free the nature reserve there from trash. A great opportunity to see the big river Elbe from a different angle.
For more information (mainly in German) about the Fischbeker heathland: http://www.hamburg.de/fischbeker-heide/
🏠 Accommodation on site
You will sleep on camp beds (with mattresses) in the simple furnished seminar house on the premise of the nature reserve centre Fischbeker Heide. You will cook together.
📍 About the location
The nature reserve centre Fischbeker Heide is a 45 minute trip from the city centre of Hamburg (by public transport). In your free time, you can take trips to Germany's second biggest city, where lots of entertainment and leisure activities await you (www.hamburg.com). The weekends are great for a trip to the beaches on the North Sea or Baltic Sea Coast.
⚠️ Requirements
You have to be fit enough for physical demanding work.
ℹ️ Additional information
You have to be fit enough for physical demanding work.