"Perspectives 2011" - Sustainability and Annual Report (pdf)

Workforce and work environmentEnvironmental and climate protectionP Climate strategyP Resource stewardshipP Noise controlq BiodiversityFinancial reviewSustainable developmentplish our primary conservation goal of reintroducingand developing former types of land use and biotopesin the Freisinger Moos and Erdinger Moos fenlands.These efforts are creating greater ecological value inthe conservation areas around our airport.Near-natural habitats, such as streams and rivers, riverbanksand sandbars, fens and marshland, beddingmeadows and wet meadows, wet and alluvial woodland,and low-nutrient meadowland are all protectedunder conservation legislation. Areas like these arecommon at our compensatory mitigation sites and, inmany instances, the care and maintenance work wecarry out is intended expressly to protect them andenhance their ecological value.Protecting threatened bird speciesThe Freisinger Moos bird reserve helps populationsof protected European bird species to survive and re -cover. These species include ground-nesting birds likequail, lapwing, the western curlew, the red-backedshrike and the bluethroat. Land owned by FlughafenMünchen GmbH is mown and maintained in such away that it provides a habitat that suits birds like theseand protects threatened species. The low-nutrientmeadows set up as a mitigative site at Langer Haken,a former glider aerodrome, are especially importantfor the long-term protection of a small populationof the western curlew, which is currently at risk ofextinction.The open land and spinneys of the Nördliches ErdingerMoos bird reserve are also managed and maintainedto provide a habitat that suits protected Europeanground-nesting birds like the blue-headed wagtail,corncrake, lapwing and western curlew, as well asspecies like the oriole, pied flycatcher, red-backedshrike and bluethroat.At the Oberdingermoos nature preserve, there arevaluable tracts of low-nutrient meadowland, rich inflowering plant species, that are reminiscent of oldertypes of land use. These, too, are carefully landscapedand maintained to provide the right habitats to protectkey European bird species like the tree pipit, redstart,lesser spotted woodpecker, red-backed shrike, orioleand river warbler.109