EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - UNESCO World Heritage

NOMINATION DOSSIER ANNEX 5.2
"ANCIENT BEECH FORESTS OF GERMANY"
Kulturlandschaft Uckermark e.V.
Statute
of the association - Kulturlandschaft
Uckermark e.V. -
Society for the promotion of ecologically sound and socially responsible initiatives in
the Uckermark / friends of the Biosphere Reservation Schorfheide-Chorin
§ 1
Name, domicile
(1) The association carries the name "Kulturlandschaft Uckermark e.V. - Verein zur
Unterstützung von natur- und sozialverträglichen Initiativen in der Uckermark / Förderverein
des Biosphärenreservates Schorfheide-Chorin".
It is to be entered in the register of associations.
(2) The association has its domicile in Angermünde, Landkreis Uckermark.
§ 2
Purpose of the association
(1) The purpose of the association is the promotion and provision of support for projects and
initiatives which serve to preserve the cultural landscape in the Uckermark and the Biosphere
Reservation Schorfheide-Chorin in their specificity and to develop them in a ecologically
sound and socially responsible manner. The association supervises and promotes all
initiatives in the Uckermark and adjacent regions drawn from the areas of nature
conservation and environmental education, especially those of a sustainable natural and
environmental nature and those drawn from the sector of ecological agriculture, landscape
management and heritage preservation, youth exchange and education and scientific and
artistic work.
(2) These aims are promoted through the provision of support to
a) exemplary projects of a sustainable long-term and environmentally-friendly nature,
especially ecological land-use of the area to be supported as well as development in the rural
area.
b) of cultural and artistic projects,
c) of environmental education projects and initiatives
d) of projects for the conservation and re-establishment of near-natural landscape sections
and their communities, taking into account the requirements of resource-protection and biodiversity.
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