Germany:
Nature conservation on the edge of the big city - Part 2
Kamp Kodu
ijgd 15020
Başlangıç - Bitiş Tarihi
20.09.2025 /
04.10.2025
Toplam Kontenjan
15
Boş Kontenjan
7
4
Yaş
16 - 26
Ekstra Ücret
Yok
Kamp Temaları
ENVI
Organizasyon
IJGD
Kuruluş
Gesellschaft für ökologische Planung e.V. (GÖP) - Society for Ecological Planning
Elbe-Tideauenzentrum - Elbe Tidal Floodplain Centre
The Society for Ecological Planning e.V. (GÖP) is a non-profit nature conservation association. It looks after 14 of Hamburg's 37 nature reserves and runs the Elbe Tidal Floodplain Centre, an important extracurricular educational institution dedicated to the freshwater tidal floodplains, which are unique in Europe. With mostly self-built exhibits on local nature, flora and fauna, the exhibition provides insights into these special features and motivates visitors to try things out and experience them. The staff of the Elbe Tidal Floodplain Centre carry out nature conservation measures in the 14 nature reserves.
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.
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İş Tanımı
Landscape conservation in great surroundings and sightseeing in the big city! - You can experience both at this camp on the outskirts of the metropolis of Hamburg.
You will work under the guidance of staff from the Elbe Tidal Floodplain Centre, mainly in the Boberger Niederung and Borghorster Elblandschaft nature reserves, but also in the nature reserves Auenlandschaft Obere Tideelbe, Allermöher Wiesen, Horster Moor and Heuckenlock areas. In the first week you will work from Monday to Friday, in the second from Monday to Thursday, as Friday 3 October is a public holiday.
The Boberger Niederung nature reserve is an extraordinary place, as sand dunes and heathland, moors and forests, marshland meadows and waters meet here, making every corner of the 464-hectare area diverse and particularly worthy of protection. Around 650 plant species grow here, including many highly endangered or endangered species, such as the broad-leaved orchid. Endangered animals such as the blue-winged grasshopper, grass snake and common snipe can also be found here. The inland dune is the most endangered type of biotope in Germany, which is why one of your tasks is to carry out weed removal measures or to ‘ring’ the invasive bird cherry, i.e. to take away its nutrient supply by removing the bark.
In the Borghorster Elblandschaften nature reserve, you will also be busy weeding and ‘ringing’ weeping cherries. This 225-hectare area offers similarly diverse habitats as the Boberger Niederung. Animal species such as the beaver, the oriole and the ant mermaid (an insect species) can be found here. You will also be planting hardwoods in the tidal floodplain.
On a trip to the Elbe Tidal Floodplain Centre in Hamburg-Moorwerder, you will get an insight into the exhibition there and a guided tour of the adjacent, unique Heuckenlock nature reserve (a freshwater tidal floodplain with a 100-hectare alluvial forest, which is located in the south of the Elbe island of Wilhelmsburg and where, among other things, the white-tailed eagle breeds). You will also build and hang up nesting aids and collect rubbish in the Allermöher Wiesen nature reserve.
In addition to the practical work, you will learn a lot about nature and environmental protection in general as well as the nature and habitat in these two special nature reserves from employees of the Elbe Tidal Floodplain Centre. You will learn a lot about the local flora and fauna as well as the special need for protection of animals and plants on the Red List.
Information (unfortunately only in German) on the Boberger Niederung and Borghorster Elblandschaft nature reserves and the Elbe tidal floodplain centre can be found here:
https://www.goep.hamburg/boberg/
https://www.goep.hamburg/borghorst/
https://www.goep.hamburg/umweltbildung/elbe-tideauenzentrum.php
Konaklama ve Yemek
You will stay at Haus Warwisch, a quiet and idyllic self-catering house on the outskirts of Hamburg directly on the Elbe. It offers space for two groups. In your living area there is a 7-bed room, a 6-bed room and a 2-bed room. There is also a kitchen, a dining room and lounge as well as a shower and toilet for men and women. A campfire and barbecue area as well as a football pitch and basketball hoop are available in the outdoor area 70 metres away.
You cater for yourselves and cook together. You will be provided with money for shopping. Vegetarian or vegan meals are possible. Please indicate any intolerances when registering.
Konum ve Serbest Zaman
In your free time, you can enjoy your quiet accommodation and the beautiful surroundings by taking part in sports and spending evenings together around the campfire. You can also go on excursions to Hamburg, the second largest city in Germany, where a wide range of leisure activities await you.
www.hamburg.de (German) / www.hamburg.com (English)
At the weekend, trips to the beaches on the North and Baltic coast are well worthwhile
Notlar
Please note: There is a special Teenage Fee of 150€ for international volunteers who applied under 18 in this camp.
You will receive more information after your confirming registration with the specigic infosheet for your project.
Konuşulan Diller
English
En Yakın Terminal
Hamburg-Hauptbahnhof (main train station) – Ahrensburg Bahnhof (train station)
We would like to invite you to travel as environmentally friendly as possible. If you have the option to go by train, bus, carsharing or bicycle that can be a great first step for you to become a climate steward.
