Gardening Events

For the bad condition of the forests different reasons are responsible, whereby the air pollutions – and here above all nitrogen connections caused by humans - a particularly large portion have. The integrated strategy for the reduction of the nitrogen missions of the Federal Office for Environment Protection (UBA) puts measures out for the decrease of the agricultural nitrogen missions - as for instance the economical employment of nitrogenous Handelsdünger and nitrogen-optimized feeding - as particularly effective and cost efficient. They have besides clear synergies: Beside the forest also waters and climate profit.
The forest report of the Federal Government represents the necessity for the reduction of the air pollutions, in particular to the release of nitrogen connections, which affect the condition of the forests negatively. Nitrogen connections disturb the nutrient equilibrium in plants and grounds by one-sided Überdüngung and Säurebildung. Woodlands become thereby more susceptibly in relation to other load factors as for instance climatic influences or Schädlingsbefall. Beyond that nitrogen oxides from industry and traffic are forerunner materials for near-surface ozone, & to direct sheet or needle damage with woodlands and wild plants leads and their Vitalität reduces.
Forests cover approximately a third of the land surface of Germany. They achieve indispensable services for humans. To these among other things also water storage and - and ground erosion, climatic reconciliation, the function belong to filtering, the protection from floods as habitat for plants and animals as well as area for recovery and inspiration for humans beside wood production. The danger threatens that the forest cannot become fair by the pollutant entries its various important functions on a long-term basis any longer. To the protection of the ecological systems Germany committed itself in the framework that Geneva air pure retaining convention and the European Union guideline over national emission upper limits, the output from air pollutions to & to reduce 2010 clearly. These goals are not achieved regarding nitrogen connections by the measures seized so far presumably. Therefore the UBA provided an integrated strategy for the reduction of the nitrogen missions. This Strategie& proves clear synergies and thus various use also for other ecological systems.
Particularly high Emissionsminderungspotenziale with simultaneous cost-efficiency of suitable measures exists in the agriculture. It is responsible for more than half of all nitrogen missions. In addition, measures in the traffic sector - as the expansion that truck toll on all trucks over 3,5 t and all freeways and a brisk introduction of heavy commercial motor vehicles, which fulfill the euro-vi-standard - as well as further emission reductions with the electricity production in large heating installations, contribute to reduced entries of gaseous and solved nitrogen connections into the ecological systems. From such measures profit not only the German forests, but also our domestic and territorial waters as well as the climate.
You find the forest report of the Federal Government 2009 here: VollversionDie nitrogen mission reduction strategy of the Federal Office for Environment Protection find you under: http://www.umweltbundesamt.de/luft/downloads/emissionen/stickstoffemissionsminderungsstrategie.pdf
Further information to effects of air pollutions receives you here: http://www.umweltbundesamt.de/luft/eintraege-wirkungen/effekt.htm