Hohenzieritz (dpa/mv) – The national parks and nature parks in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania are drawing attention to the importance of the moors this year with numerous events. “Many people are not yet aware of the central role of moors in climate protection, but also as a landscape archive and habitat,” said Dany Poganatz, acting director of the Müritz National Park, on Monday. Moor protection also means climate protection.
In Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, moors are home to a unique fauna and flora – from the insect-eating sundew to the blue moor frog, according to a press release. The protected areas impressively showed that not all moors are the same, but that each has its own history and charms.
The state’s seven nature parks belong to the State Office for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Geology (LUNG). Its director, Ute Hennings, said that large moor areas in national parks and nature parks had been successfully renatured in the past few decades. “Over the centuries, human use has caused an enormous loss of area in intact moors,” says Hennings.
Next week the Heinrich Böll Foundation, which is close to the Greens, the environmental protection organization BUND and the Michael Succow Foundation will present the “Mooratlas 2023” in Berlin. According to the authors, in Germany alone around 50,000 hectares of drained moorland will have to be rewetted every year by 2050 in order to still achieve the climate targets.
