Greenpeace Activists Map out Areas in the Spessart

Activists measure perimeter and diameter of trees and use GPS technology for the monitoring of ecologically valuable old trees. Greenpeace activists continue to map out areas in the Spessart. They start with a beech forest with about 200 year old trees in the area of the forest management Hammelburg.

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Greenpeace Aktivisten kartographieren Buchen im Spessart

Greenpeace Aktivisten kartieren schuetzenswerte Buchenwaelder im Forstbetrieb Hammelburg noerdlich von Wuerzburg. Die AktivistInnen starten die Vermessung mit GPS-System in einem etwa 200 Jahre alten Buchenwald, in dem kurz zuvor eingeschlagen wurde.

Unique identifier: GP0STO997

Type: Image

Shoot date: 05/03/2014

Locations: Bavaria, Europe, Germany, Lohr am Main

Credit line: © Greenpeace / Andreas Varnhorn

Size: 4256px × 2832px 4MB

Ranking: ★★★★ (E)

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Greenpeace Activists Map Out Areas in Spessart

Greenpeace activists continue to map out areas in the Spessart Mountains. They start with a beech forest with about 200 year old trees in the area of the forest management Hammelburg. Activists measure perimeter and diameter of trees and use GPS technology for the monitoring of ecologically valuable old trees.
The area is part of the public forest in the Bavarian Spessart Mountains and managed by Bavarian State forest enterprise (BaySF). As owner of these forests, the Bavarian State refuses to provide information about the exact location and management of old beech and deciduous forests in this part of the Spessart Mountains. Greenpeace demands that logging in public forests is immediately stopped in all deciduous forests with beech trees older than 140 years, until an agreement is made to protect 10 percent of the German state owned forests from any forestry uses.

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