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. Aiirens 
Berlin, W'ilmersdorf, Germany 
Contents 
1. Introduction: Conservation in Europe. 
2. Bird Protection in Germany. 
3. Plant and Nature I'rotection 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 paj^er, 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 j^rimeval 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 
Juniperns nana and Salix Jicrbacca, 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 
excelsa and Abies pcctinata 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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