Sunshine, Beach Time and Waves - Enjoy Nature Preservation on the Island of Wangerooge

Name: Sunshine, Beach Time and Waves - Enjoy Nature Preservation on the Island of Wangerooge
Start: 2021-07-31
End: 2021-08-14
Location: Germany

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About the project

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

The ijgd has been organising volunteer service programmes since 1949. We are an independent, non-profit association for international youth work, a recognised independent youth welfare organisation, and one of the largest and oldest workcamp organisations in Germany. Each year, we assist around 5,000 young people into volunteer work in Germany and abroad. We give them the opportunity to be creative, act in solidarity, take responsibility for themselves, and discover their own true potential and strengths. Our principles Ecological learning, voluntary contribution, self-organisation, social development, intercultural learning, gender equality, anti-racism/anti-discrimination and political education

💼 What the programme involves

Explore the unique landscape and habitat of the mud flats and contribute to the preservation of the native flora and fauna. Starting from 2010, every year there has been an ijgd group to contribute to the nature conservation works in the coastal heathland and this year is no exception. With spades and hoes, you can help with the cultivation of smaller freshwater biotopes and protect the native vegetation against the displacement by non-native plants to grow very fast. Through your work you will learn a lot about the nature on the island and the world heritage sights of the mud flats. You will be instructed and guided by competent nature conservationists.

🏠 Accommodation on site

You will be staying in shared rooms in the youth meeting centre of the „Oldenburgischen Jugenderholungswerk“ (OJE). You will have your own seminar room, a barbecue area, as well as games and sports facilities on the premises. www.oje-wangerooge.de (only available in German) Full catering in your accommodation; you will have to help out in the kitchen.

📍 About the location

Wangerooge is part of the national park Niedersächsisches Wattenmeer (Lower Saxony Mudflats) and has an amazing and unique flora and fauna. Cars are forbidden, so life on the island will be quiet and ecological. In your free time you can go swimming, explore the island by bike, go on a mudflat hiking tour or just enjoy the summer feeling in the small island town. www.wangerooge.de (only available in German) www.waddensea-worldheritage.org