Interventions in nature and landscape

Preparations for the construction of a privacy wall - construction site in the forest

Photo: Lower Nature Conservation Authority Wolfsburg

• Impact regulation

  The impact regulation is used to prevent, reduce and/or compensate for significant impairments to nature and the landscape, which can occur during construction projects, for example. According to the German Federal Nature Conservation Act (BNatSchG), an impact is deemed to have occurred if the performance and functionality of the ecosystem or the landscape can be significantly impaired by a change in the shape or use of land or the groundwater level associated with the living soil layer (Section 14 BNatSchG).

  Private construction projects can also trigger the intervention requirement.

  The principle of the impact regulation under nature conservation law is the avoidance of avoidable impairments. Where there are no reasonable alternatives and impairments to nature and the landscape are unavoidable, these must be compensated or replaced by the polluter through nature conservation and landscape management measures (Section 15 BNatSchG).

  Please contact us before carrying out any (potential) intervention in nature and the landscape.

  Contact:

  If you have any questions on these topics, please contact us by e-mail: naturschutz@stadt.wolfsburg.de, or by telephone on 05361 28- 2296 or 05361 28-2073

• Compensation and replacement (compensation register)
  

  Grazing with cattle and Konik horses in the Ilkerbruch and Barnbruchswiesen nature reserve

  Photo: Lower Nature Conservation Authority Wolfsburg

  Unavoidable impairments must be compensated for by the polluter through compensatory or replacement measures. This means that the functions of the ecosystem or the landscape that have been impaired or destroyed by the intervention must be restored in a similar or equivalent manner. If compensatory and replacement measures are demonstrably not feasible, it is possible in individual cases to compensate for the impact with a compensation payment. Examples of compensatory and replacement measures (compensation measures) include the planting of new trees or hedges, the creation of new orchards and the (partial) unsealing of areas. The nature conservation authority of the city of Wolfsburg is obliged to record the compensation measures and the areas used for them in a compensation register (Section 17 (6) BNatSchG and Section 7 NNatSchG).

  Contact:

  If you have any questions on these topics, please contact us by e-mail: naturschutz@stadt.wolfsburg.de, or by telephone on 05361 28-1489 or 05361 28-1432

Contact:

• To the "Nature conservation" page