📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
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💼 What the programme involves
Together with the forestry and conservation specialists of the Alb-Donau district, your tasks will be to take care of and restore a wetland area (ponds and streams), to take care of a juniper heath and some neglected grassland at Mochental. You ll cut the ponds free, repair the dam and move the rapidly growing climbing plants away from the pond, so that many different species of plants and animal can grow there once more. Juniper heaths were in this area in the past through grazing from sheep and goats, and as the biotope with the largest number of different species in central Europe, is heavily protected by conservationists. They are in danger of growing like in the woods again. Here you will be moving prickly shrubs and trees in order to create more space and light for the rare plants, insects and birds who are already living there. You will be coached by a forest ranger, a forestry master and some apprentices.
🏠 Accommodation on site
You will be sleeping on camp beds in a group room on the grounds of the Mochental Castle. There is a separate living space with kitchen. You ll cook your own meals together.
📍 About the location
You ll be living in a remote location, and can sit around a camp fire during the evening. In the surrounding area (up to 35km away), there are companies in the Swabian Alp biosphere region, theBierkulturstadt Ehingen, the Laichinger caverns and high ropes course, canoes on the Grossen Lauter lake, the outdoor museum in Kurnbach and the river Ulm with the world-renowned city of Munster. More further afield (up to 150km) are Bodensee, Stuttgart, Augsburg and the bear cave at Lichtenstein.
⚠️ Requirements
You should be able to ride a bike.
ℹ️ Additional information
Sometimes the work will be physically demanding. You ll be living in a remote location at the forest support point, around 10km South West of Ehingen. The station is 5km away by bike. There is no wi-fi, only relatively weak connectivity over mobile internet.