Public lecture series of the NWV together with the University of Bremen, the Bremen University of Applied Sciences and the Übersee-Museum, on the UN Decade "Restoration of Ecosystems", with the framework topic:

Wilderness: dream, goal or aberration

Insights into current projects for the creation and development of wilderness areas in Central Europe.

"Uni-Wildnis", Bremen. Photo: naturum (Lennart Thamm) cc-by-sa 4.0.

Wilderness, for thousands of years the feared antithesis of the ordered cultural landscape, is today becoming a positive dream image. Vastness, tranquillity, desertedness, “untouched nature” as imagined by city dwellers. As a goal of landscape development, it is often considered cost-effective because everything happens by itself. But it is not certain whether what then develops also serves the goals of species protection and more biodiversity. Whether the newly formulated goal of “process protection” outweighs the others is often disputed because the necessary diversity of processes is lacking in many places. The reports from various “wilderness areas” are intended to shed light on how wilderness development deals with such problems in practice. Letting nature be nature, which is the new motto of the national parks in Germany, does not release us from the obligation to learn from the processes that then take place.

Hakon Nettmann (20. August 2024)

State: 28. August 2024

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