environmental Protection
With violin and guitar: area inhabitants make new music for the Oder
– Individuals at an event of the Kienitz Citizens’ Initiative “Help you save Oder Die” on the Oder. picture © Patrick Pleul / dpa
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A great concert along the Oder: that was organized by an initiative of the citizens of the Oderbruch. And several arrived, taking part in songs, inquiring for tranquil for the river and far better security.
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Tim Klotz enthusiastically prints T-shirts with the “Help you save oder Die” brand. The well known initiative of the exact same name organized a substantial musical chain alongside the Oder this Sunday. The organizers’ plan: to make new music from supply to mouth to guard the river. Hundreds of Oder residents, conservationists and good friends of the river brought violins, guitars, accordions, conga – others their voices to sing for the restoration and renaturation of the river. Spots involved Kienitz, Groß Neuendorf, Zollbrücke, Schwedt and Hohensaaten. Compact concerts must also be held in Frankfurt (Oder) and Aurith.
Organizer Steffi Bartel is moved. “I am confused that so several people have appear to the Oder to sing with each other,” she advised the German news agency. Polish activists and environmentalists also arrived to Kienitz from the German facet. “There is an incredible energy on the drinking water”, Bartel is certain.
On Saturday, around 100 German and Polish environmentalists shown in a joint action on the Oder for much better safety of the broken river. Members in the Europa Bridge Neurüdnitz-Siekierki included the transnational alliance “Time for the Oder”, the Polish alliance “Help you save the Rivers”, the alliance of “saveoderdie” citizens of the Oderbruch and WWF communities Germany.
The actors fulfilled symbolically on the bridge, claimed WWF drinking water pro Tobias Schäfer of the dpa. Environmentalists needed to make it distinct that restoring the river ecosystem must now be a precedence. Furthermore, all interventions that could cause further more injury to the river need to be avoided.
Considering the fact that the commencing of August, tons of dead fish have been recovered from the German-Polish border river. Several hundred substances could be accountable for the environmental catastrophe, but the specific lead to is nevertheless unclear. The last report of a German-Polish pro team on the achievable results in is expected to be available by the stop of September. Researchers presume that the high salinity in the river is a key explanation, blended with minimal h2o, superior temperatures, and a poisonous species of algae.
“With the marketing campaign, Polish critical voices need to also be read extra,” the WWF expert underlines. It was about making a bridge nationwide.
The Kienitz Citizens’ Initiative “Help you save Oder Die” confirmed solidarity with the “Motion Alliance for the Living Oder”. Among other things, the alliance demands that politics and administration offer a entire explanation of the environmental catastrophe on the Oder and an rapid halt to the advancement of the Oder. The put Kienitz belongs to Märkisch-Oderland. The district is about 80 kilometers long on the Oder on the border with Poland and has been particularly afflicted by the large killing of fish.
“All folks are known as to reconnect with character,” states Tim Klotz, 49, for the duration of the songs campaign for the Oder. He brought his double bass with him. This motion by a lot of should only be the starting, he is persuaded of it. “If we glance to the long term, we want to mobilize adequate people to mail a million signatures to Brussels in opposition to the growth of the Oder.”
Odette Bollfras and her husband Frank also came to the Oder dam. They enjoy the river and are dealing with the consequences of the environmental disaster in other places. The tourism industry has suffered enormously considering the fact that the fish died, they report. The couple operate a neighborhood store in Kienitz, the spot hasn’t had a supermarket in a prolonged time. All the things travellers may possibly have to have is sold, such as quite a few regional solutions. Pensions and campsites are now vacant. They the two hope to make it through the wintertime.
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