Dear Michael,
Thanks for your kind feedback.
It's not a reserve, but it is a quite interesting area for a location
that is so close to the city. I guess that there are about 70 species
of birds and at least 10 species of mammals that live in or visit that
area.
I have been visiting that area for about 25 years. Until about 1985,
parts of it were used as a sewage farm for cleaning domestic and
industrial waste waters:
http://www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de/umwelt/umweltatlas/ed110_02.htm
For this reason, the soil is still contaminated with heavy metals:
http://www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de/umwelt/umweltatlas/ed110_03.htm
Interestingly, the sewage farm usage also provided some benefits for
the nature, because those artifical wetlands were an important habitat
for migrating waders.
Regards,
Raimund
Michael Gallagher <> wrote:
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> Dear Raimund
>
> Thanks for your recording. Thanks for the Google Map reference. What
> a good idea.
>
> Could you tell us about the environment. Is it a reserve? How many
> species live in or visit it? What sort of pressures is it under?
>
> Regards
>
> Michael Gallagher
> Bendigo
> Australia
>
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