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Sunbathing while working in nature conservation in the Emstal - Meppen

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About the project

Sunbathing while working in nature conservation in the Emstal - Meppen

📝 Detailed information

💼 What the programme involves

Your work tasks in Meppen and the surrounding area will be in different nature reserves: in the scenic landscape around the rivers Hase and Ems, you will find historic-culturally used grazing areas, where your group will weed out the poisonous Jakobskreuzkraut, which the Galloway cattle must not eat. Well equipped with rubber boots and fisherman's trousers, you will remove the non-native birch and pine trees from the moor, in order to enable the protected animal and plant species, like wild geese, grass snakes and sun dew, to spread again. You will also cut the steep sand walls close to the river, so kingfishers can build their nests for their hatch there. In addition, you help build hiking trails and put up information boards. You will live in four holiday homes in the former “Heuerhaus” of a farm. The town of Meppen has 35.000 residents. If you want to take day trips, you will have bicycles at your disposal. The city of Meppen and the local train station are 7 km from your accommodation.

🏠 Accommodation on site

Holiday homes on the farm, 7km from the city centre. Shared rooms, terrace and a nice outside area with a barbecue site. You will cook together.

📍 About the location

The theme park „Schloss Dankern“, canoeing on the Ems/Hase, historical city tour Lingen, trips to the nearby cities of Osnabrück and Leer, bathing lakes in Meppen and Geeste, cinema, outdoor theatre, archeology and moor museum, bicycle tours, big grass area and barbecue site. https://www.meppen.de/ http://www.schloss-dankern.de/ https://www.lingen.de/ https://www.osnabrueck.de/start.html https://www.leer.de/

⚠️ Requirements

Be keen to work outdoors in nature, for people who love the life in the countryside. You have to be able to ride a bike.

ℹ️ Additional information

Be keen to work outdoors in nature, for people who love the life in the countryside. You have to be able to ride a bike.

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📅 Available sessions

ijgd 18207

02/06/2018 → 23/06/2018

Closed
Volunteers registered 0 / 15
♂ 0/8 ♀ 0/7

ℹ️ Key information

Age required

16–26 years old

Solidarity donation

0.00

French tax residents may be eligible for a tax reduction of up to 66% of their costs (membership, plane tickets, solidarity donation).

📍 Location

49716 Meppen, Germany

Germany

🌍 Location info

Local currency

Euro Member Countries (EUR / €)

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🗣️ Languages spoken

English German