EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - UNESCO World Heritage

NOMINATION DOSSIER ANNEX 7.3.2
"ANCIENT BEECH FORESTS OF GERMANY"
Measure 5: Sustainable land management in the buffer zone of the Grumsin
component part
Negotiations with landowners are to be continued in the Grumsin component part with
the objective of comprehensively sustainable land use. The relocation and acquisition
activities will be continued with the aim of transferring the entire area to public
ownership or to the Kulturlandschaft Uckermark e.V. association until 2020.
Objective V: Risk management
Developing a risk management including stipulations regarding its implementation is a
worthwhile effort to protect the site. There were no palpable threats at the time the nomination
dossier was being prepared.
Measure 1: Potential risk scenarios for the World Heritage area
The scenarios might be centred on the following events:
climate change
substance input
infrastructural measures within the area or surroundings (e.g. road or railroad construction,
canalisation, overhead power lines, radio interference, wind energy).
research activities
game stock
invasive species
tourism
Measure 2: Creation of a risk management
The steering group will create a coordinated risk management together with an
appropriate action plan based on the results of Measures 1 (scenarios). The risk
management will undergo continuous updating based on the results of the similarly
coordinated monitoring and the (international) research projects and developments.
Objective VI: Wildlife management
The goal of undisturbed natural development also includes wildlife management. The aim is
to forego any utilisation-oriented hunting in every one of the areas. Wildlife management is
exclusively limited to the required activities arising from the risk management scenarios.
Measure 1: Reorganising wildlife management in the Grumsin and Jasmund
component parts
Active wildlife management in the Grumsin and Jasmund component parts will be
shifted to the buffer zone and surroundings at an early point. With the exception of
such years in which there game monitoring yields evidence of excessive hoofed game
populations, the nominated component parts are kept free of game population control.
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