EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - UNESCO World Heritage

Citizen involvement
• Society of the Friends of the Hainich
National Park and the Eichsfeld-
Hainich-Werratal Nature Park
• Society for the Development of the
Hainich National Park
• Approx. 150 trained nature guides
• Partnerships in the educational sector
with schools and in the context of the
EUROPARC project “Partners of the
National Natural Landscapes”
• Involvement in the EUROPARC
programme “Volunteers in Parks”
Kellerwald component part
Research cooperation and publications
To allow for the entire protected area management,
research, and education as well as the
concomitant public relations to be eff ectively
implemented, the national park adminis tration
has been maintaining comprehensive
and multifaceted cooperations and partnerships.
Th ere is a close cooperation between the
Kellerwald-Edersee National Park and
other national parks and specialised institutions
to actively promote both the research
association and the transfer of knowledge.
Th e national park participates in the workgroup
“Research and Monitoring in Largescale
Protected Areas” under the umbrella
organisation EUROPARC-Germany.
Moreover, explicit principles include the
partnership-based collaboration with
state departments, universities, research
institutes, freelance experts and volunteers
according to the national park plan and
research concept. Previous research cooperations
(examples):
• Th e component part is member in the
LTER-D (Long Term Ecological Research
– Deutschland) research association,
the latter being a platform for
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communicat ion, documentation, and
cooperation in the area of long-term
system-oriented, and interdisciplinary
environmental monitoring in Germany.
LTER-D in turn is involved in national
and international networks.
• Level II programme with the Northwest
German Forest Research Station,
Hessian State Offi ce for Environment
and Geology.
• Investigations into freshwater ecology
with the University of Kassel.
• Permanent sample inventory with the
Northwest German Forest Research
Station.
• Studies on natural forest reserves with
the Senckenberg Society for Research
on Nature Frankfurt / Main.
• Fungus research with the University
of Kassel.
• Beech genetics with the University of
Marburg.
• Studies on hoofed game with the
University of Göttingen.
Th e fi eld of publications and knowledge
transfer saw the beech forest symposium
HessenForst (interdisciplinary scientifi c
forum for research on national park-specifi c
ecosystems), the creation of the ongoing
series “Research Reports” for the national
park, and periodical fi eld trips, technical
lectures, seminars, accompanied by the
release of scientifi c publications. Th e national
park magazine “BuchenBlatt” (“Beech-
Leaf / Paper”), which is issued three times
a year, is the offi cial bulletin addressing
the general public.
Citizen involvement
• Honorary activities: nature conservation
organisations, local and supraregional
experts
• National park advisory board and expert
panel on research, honorary national park
guides
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