AIMS AND STATUS OF PLANT AND ANIMAL 

 PRESERVE WORK IN EUROPE, WITH 

 SPECIAL REFERENCE TO GERMANY, 

 INCLUDING A LIST OF THE 

 MOST IMPORTANT PUB- 

 LICATIONS ON THESE 

 PRESERVES 



By Dr. Theodor G. Ahrens 

 Berlin, Wilmersdorf, Germany 



Contents 



-i. Introduction: Conservation in Europe. 



2. Bird Protection in Germany. 



3. Plant and Nature Protection in Germany. 



4. Organizations and Administration. 



5. Publications. 



Introduction: Conservation in Europe 



As the aims and status of conservation in Germany constitute the 

 main body of this paper, a few general remarks on the care and 

 protection of nature and natural monuments in other European 

 countries are in order. To obtain protection of natural monuments 

 there are three general ways : by voluntary, by administrative, and 

 by legislative help. In the confines of the former Austrian Empire 

 about 11,000 acres of primeval woods and meadows surrounding 

 Vienna were purchased and reserved. Unfortunately, the recent 

 deplorable economic conditions in Vienna have caused great numbers 

 of trees in these reserves to be cut down for firewood by the 

 inhabitants. 



Three hundred and fifty acres in Moravia, with growths of 

 Juniperus nana and Salix herbacea, and some 285 acres in the 

 Bohmerwald, for the purpose of safeguarding a primitive forest 

 tract in Central Europe, have been set aside and protected. Picea 

 cxcelsa and Abies pectinata occur in considerable amounts there. 

 In Belgium the forest of Soignes, near Brussels, and various plant 

 associations of individual interest in different parts of the country 

 have been preserved. 



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