The document is the August 2014 newsletter of the English-speaking Section of natur&ëmwelt, which announces upcoming nature events in Luxembourg, including guided birdwatching tours and an apple picking/juice making event. It also provides information on the section's activities to protect landscapes and habitats for wildlife, and encourage people to support local conservation efforts through membership.
In this edition:
Our 10 November Fit by Nature event in Junglinster from a participant's perspective;
Our upcoming events on 2 Feb 2013: Get Fit by Nature in a Junglinster Orchard and 13 April 2013: Mussels Rearing Station and Habitat Guided Visit; and
How you can support us through membership, volunteering and donations to projects.
We would be pleased to hear from you!
Please feel free to forward our newsletter to your friends, family, colleagues and contacts that have an interest in nature and the environment.
In this edition:
Our 10 November Fit by Nature event in Junglinster from a participant's perspective;
Our upcoming events on 2 Feb 2013: Get Fit by Nature in a Junglinster Orchard and 13 April 2013: Mussels Rearing Station and Habitat Guided Visit; and
How you can support us through membership, volunteering and donations to projects.
We would be pleased to hear from you!
Please feel free to forward our newsletter to your friends, family, colleagues and contacts that have an interest in nature and the environment.
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Natur&emwelt English Speaking Section Newsletter August 2014
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What's on ...
31.08.2014 - Birds of the Oesling
05.10.2014 - International Birdwatch Day – Youth event
11.10.2014 – Picking apples to make juice or take home
… read more below!
Birds of the Oesling 31 August 2014
The natur&ëmwelt English-speaking Section is organising a guided
excursion that will focus on the birds in the Ösling in the context of the
Life Éislek project. The tour is also suitable for people without any prior
knowledge about birds but offers some of the highlights of birding in
Luxembourg. Last year’s sightings included red-backed shrikes, whinchats,
a black stork and a variety of different raptors.
For more information on the Life Éislek project, namely the restoration of
wetlands in the North of Luxembourg, please consult the official website
www.life-eislek.eu
We will meet directly at 14h at the church in Troine:
For more information, please contact Mikis Bastian: 621 529 526, col@naturemwelt.lu
If you are interested in car pooling or have a couple of spare seats that you would like to offer, please
let us know.
As birds are rather timid, dogs are not permitted on the walk.
Sturdy footwear and binoculars are recommended.
Link: Life Eislek - http://ec.europa.eu/environment/life/news/press/documents/2012/annex_fr.pdf
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International Birdwatch Day – Youth event, 5 October 2014
As part of the International Birdwatch Day 2014, the natur&ëmwelt English-speaking Section is
organising a bird ringing event in the Bird Protection Area “Haff Remich” in Remerschen. Young
people, particularly those aged 10 to 18 years old, will get the chance to experience autumn
migration and get a first hand experience of scientific bird ringing. We will catch birds which are on
their way to their wintering grounds and explain the importance of nature reserves, which serve as
stop-over sites on the birds’ long journey south.
Children under 10 years old are also welcome if they are accompanied by an adult.
Bird ringing will take place throughout the morning (starting at 7:00 a.m.) but people are free to
come and go as they like. Meeting point is the large bird observation hide inside the reserve (see
map).
For more information please get in touch with Mikis Bastian: 621 529 526, col@naturemwelt.lu
Please forward this email to others who are interested in nature and the environment so that we can
grow our community.
See the map at the end of the newsletter.
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Apple-juice: conservation in a bottle, 11 October 2014
In the normal course of events,
you’d think, consumerism and
conservationism don’t have
very much in common. But
even conservationists have to
consume food and drink, and
there’s one important way
here in which we can all
protect, conserve and improve
the natural landscape — by
choosing to consume locally
grown produce.
This is true of locally produced meat and locally grown vegetables. But it’s especially true of locally
grown fruit. Nowadays we can buy farmed produce which has been flown in from all parts of the
world. But that’s really not the ecological, ‘green’ way to consume, mainly because of the
environment-unfriendly effects of the huge transport distances. Cost-wise, there may not necessarily
be any great difference between the price of local fruit and the price of fruit that’s come from the
other side of the world. But that’s only half the story...
When we eat local produce, we are not only supporting the efforts of local producers — we’re also
helping to conserve the countryside in which that produce has grown. This is particularly true of
orchards (‘Bongerten’ in Luxemburgish). Orchards used to form a ring around most Luxemburgish
villages. But as those villages expanded, the orchards were the first habitats to be chopped down.
Only gradually are we now starting to plant new orchards to replace the large areas that have been
lost to housing development.
The best way of ensuring that local orchards, old and new, have a future is to pick, buy and eat their
produce — the fruit itself and the juice made from it. Before the new harvest and the resultant juice
arrives in the shops, though, natur&ëmwelt English-speaking Section will be holding a fruit-picking
and juice-pressing session in an orchard in Cents. Check out the details on
http://www.eventbrite.com/e/pick-heirloom-apples-to-make-apple-juice-or-take-home-tickets-
11029959907
Cheers!
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Explorers in a loess world, Kaisterstuhl in May 2014
When you go to a special place to enjoy special birds, it’s a nice bonus to have the weather gods on
your side. We did. We went to the Kaiserstuhl, in south-western Germany, in May, to see — among
other things — the Bee-eaters. And the sun shone.
The Kaiserstuhl is a series of volcanic hills covered, in some cases up to a depth of 40 m, by loess, a
fine sediment that the wind distributes unevenly over the whole area. Bee-eaters excavate their nest
cavities in the loess walls, tunnelling to a depth of 1.5 m or more.
The natur&ëmwelt English-speaking
Section group spent two
days exploring the byways of this
extraordinary area, up and down
the hills and through the sunken
lanes that have been pathways
through the loess for centuries.
Birdwatchers learn of course to be
patient and to watch with their
ears too. Often it’s easier to hear
Golden Oriole, Hoopoe, Turtle
Dove, Cirl Bunting etc than it is to
see them. But just as often, the moment you’ve given up all hope of seeing one of these elusive
blighters, up they pop, in plain view. The glorious Bee-eaters, though, are everywhere.
The Badberg, one of the higher hills, is not bad at all. In fact, it’s famous for the flora and fauna that
thrive on dry and semi-dry grassland. One of the characteristic insects goes by the delightful name
Owly Sulphur (Libelloides coccajus).
What else did we see? A green lizard, a Meadow Pipit’s nest, various orchids and, oh, lots and lots. If
you’re interested in joining us on what may well be next year’s trip (in May), watch out for an
announcement in our next newsletter in January.
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Protection-worthy landscapes
Land-use planning doesn’t have the greatest of pedigrees in Luxembourg. Think industrial estates
dotted around the unlikeliest, least accessible locations and housing development strung alongside
main roads way out into the surrounding countryside. Think fragmented wildlife habitats.
Luxembourg is European ‘leader’ when it comes to landscape fragmentation and has a rate of land
take (250–300 hectares per year) which would lead to almost half the country being built up by 2050
at the present rate of development.* So it’s an event in itself when the government publishes
planning documents like its ‘plans sectoriels’. There are four of these, covering housing, transport,
industrial/business estates, and ‘protection-worthy landscapes’.
These documents are currently at the
stage of being discussed by local
councils, many of which have been
caught a bit off guard — especially the
ones whose land is set to host major
new building projects over the coming
years. All the documents are available
for inspection at
http://www.mddi.public.lu/.
From the nature-lover’s point of view, of
course, it’s the ‘protection-worthy
landscapes’ document that is of most interest. Apart from the Important Bird Areas (IBAs) that each
EU government is required to notify under the EU Wild Birds Directive, this is the first time that a
Luxembourg government has tried to pin down which parts of the countryside should be excluded
from the kind of piecemeal development that has so often passed for ‘land-use planning’.
Take a look at which parts of the area
you live in are reckoned to be worthy of
protection. With a bit of luck and/or
good judgement, your local
birdwatching patch will have been
deemed worthy of protection.
Incidentally, it’s always an interesting
and educational experience to have a
look at land ownership patterns where
you live. Most people are astonished to
find that what seems on the ground to
be a big, cohesive, single-ownership
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field is in fact a myriad of ancient strips of land, each owned by a different person (or, more often
than not, by a staggering number of co-owning heirs). It’s precisely this fragmented ownership than
makes large housing estates so difficult to organise. On the other hand, the need for farmers in the
past to have access to their strips of land all around the village has created the network of field tracks
that make walking in Luxembourg today such a pleasure.
* Mouvement écologique March 2013
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Membership information
We're trying to help wildlife in all kinds of ways. Your support is crucial so that we can carry out vital work
for nature in Luxembourg. Join today to help your local wildlife.
We create and improve habitats for birds and other wildlife, protect plant communities, maintain hedges,
orchards, etc.
We also organise outings, excursions, seminars, courses and conferences on the wildlife and the
environment in Luxembourg, such as:
· guided birdwatching walks in Luxembourg;
· visits to our LIFE projects, such as the freshwater mussel rearing station; and
· "Get Fit by Nature", e.g. practical conservation work to help clear part of a site and create a
wildflower meadow surrounded by a diverse and natural hedgerow, which will provide shelter
and a barrier against the surrounding farmland, and habitat for the Grey Partridge.
All the above examples need your support, financial as well as physical.
natur&ëmwelt asbl offers its members:
· online newsletters in English with news and events especially for English speakers;
· 4 issues per year of the membership magazine ‘Regulus’, with reports and information on nature
protection and conservation. This magazine is primarily in German;
· outings, excursions led by English-speaking guides; and
· a shop selling nature-related products in the House of Nature in Kockelscheuer.
Individual membership: 12€ /year (plus a donation, if you wish)
Family membership: 20€ /year (plus a donation, if you wish)
Please pay your membership fee to our bank account:
BCEE LU67 0019 8000 0994 5000
Thank you!
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