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FORESTS IN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES

The sites below give some information about selected aspects of forests and forestry in Germany. They are aimed to give a view of complexity of forest ecosystems and its managment, forest resources in Germany, biodiversity and nature protection. They will serve as a source of information about forests in Germany in Contest "Young People in European Forests".

	FOREST CHARACTERISTIC AND FOREST TYPES   Germany is dominated by the temperate zone. Geographically Germany is divided into northern German lowlands, low mountain rage, foothills of the Alps with the Alps. These conditions cause a natural diverse forest structure in Germany.
	TYPICAL AND EXCEPTIONAL FAUNA AND FLORA SPECIES IN FORESTS Mammals, who are living today in the German hardwood forest, are martens, fallow deer, red deer, boars, lynxes, foxes, beavers and otters. Since 1998 wolves were detected in the Lausitz.
	FORMS OF NATURE PROTECTION SUCH AS NATIONAL PARKS AND NATURE 2000 SITES The National Park Bayerischer Wald was founded in 1970 as the first national park in Germany. Today we have 14 national parks in exciting landscapes in Germany (see figure below). Especially attractive is the glacial shaped floodplain in the National Park Unteres Odertal on the frontier of Poland and Germany.
	ORGANIZATION OF FORESTRY The Federal Law on Forests and the Law of Forests of the states guarantee the sustainable ecological, economic and social performance of the forests. The German forest area is divided into state forest, community forest and private forest.

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Sources:

Holzabsatzfonds (Hrsg.) (2006): Natürlich Holz: Forst- und Holzwirtschaft in Deutschland. Bonn.
Holzabsatzfonds (Hrsg.) (2004): Natürlich Holz: Die deutsche Forstwirtschaft. Zahlen und Fakten. Bonn.
BMELV (Hrsg.) (Juni 2009): Waldbericht der Bundesregierung 2009. Berlin.
http://www.wwf.de/themen/artenschutz/bedrohte-tiere-und-pflanzen/
http://www.treffpunktwald.de/wald-online/wald-in-deutschland/forstwirtschaft/ (date: 20.02.2011)
http://www.klimawandel-global.de/klimawandel/folgen/erwarmung/ (date: 20.02.2011)
http://www.bfn.de/0308_nlp.html (date: 20.02.2011)
http://www.holz.net (date: 20.02.2011)

The authors:

Dipl. Geogr. Stephanie Gotza and Dipl.AgrarIng. Astrid Schilling
(HNE Eberswalde, Faculty of Forest and Environment, Germany)

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