Conservation fields
Riegelberg
An acreage is called „conservation field“ in the projects’ context, when its botanically extraordinary species inventory is long-term secured via contractual agreement or legal guarantees. Equally valued are acreages in property of conservation stakeholders. A management supporting the conservation of species worthy of protection shall be assured. Supervision by a local contact person shall be available.
Objectives and functions of conservation fields
- protection and conservation of endangered arable wild plants and its plant communities for scientific, ethic and aesthetic reasons
- Assurance of potential centres for the re-proliferation of rare arable wild plants
- Creation of samples for demonstration
- Preservation of plots for palaeo-ethnologic research
- Perpetuation of the generic potential of „weed“-taxons!