The City of Berlin and 17 city districts and organisations join the Countdown 2010 network
On May 22nd, International Biodiversity Day, Mrs. Ingeorg Junge-Reyer (Stellvertretende Buergermeisterin – Vice Mayor of the city of Berlin) – signed the Countdown 2010 Declaration in Berlin’s famous Alexanderplatz. Mr. Tamas Marghescu, Regional Director of Pan-Europe and Permanent Representative of the European Union, represented IUCN and Countdown 2010.
The city committed to working on the integration of the habitat network in the Landscape Programme, managing the territories of the Natura 2000 network, implementing programs for special animals like birds, bats, amphibians etc., forest management after FSC and Naturland; children education of in the field of nature and support of the nature-associations in Berlin.
The event was framed by a presentation of about 300 8-9 year old children from 10 classes in Berlin. The kids presented plants and animals of the habitat-network in Berlin, showing the public what is necessary to develop or to regenerate the biotopes and habitats. Thanks to the research carried out in class on the problems of the animals and plants, the children were able to give Mrs. Junge-Reyer some hints on ways to help them.
There is a great interest to go on with this kind of projects with schools.
The Countdown 2010 Declaration was also signed on this day by the following organisations and districts of Berlin:
1. Berliner Landesarbeitsgemeinschaft Naturschutz
2. Bezirksamt Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg
3. Berliner Wasserbetriebe BWB
4. Bezirksamt Spandau
5. Museum fuer Naturkunde der HU zu Berlin
6. Naturschutzzentrum Okowerk Berlin e.V.
7. Land Berlin, Senatsverwaltung fur Stadtentwicklung
8. Bezirksamt Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf
9. Landesverband Berlin der Gartenfreunde
10. Bezirksamt Marzahn – Hellersdorf
11. Institut fuer Zukunftsstudien und Technologiebewertung Berlin IZT
12. Bezirksamt Mitte
13. HOWOGE Wohnungsbaugesellschaft mbH
14. Bezirksamt Tempelhof-Schoeneberg
15. Bund Deutscher Landschaftsarchitekten, Landesgruppe Berlin / Brandenburg, BDLA
16. Bezirksamt Reinickendorf
17. Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum der FU Berlin
