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Insel Koos in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

The reserve "Insel Koos, Kooser See und Wampener Riff", which was placed under protection in 1990, is located about five kilometres north of the city of Greifswald and covers 1560 hectares. The aim is to preserve an extensive coastal floodplain and a shallow water area of the southern Greifswalder Bodden.

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Since the beginning of the project DINA, the site has been supervised by the staff of the Michael Succow Foundation. Nina Seifert holds a Ph.D. in biology with a focus on ornithology and landscape ecology and has been working for the Foundation in Greifswald since 2017. Her tasks here include the conceptual but also very practical development of the Foundation's own nature conservation areas in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Brandenburg. Since she has been living in Greifswald, the Insel Koos and the Karrendorf meadows have been her favourite haunts, not only for bird watching but also for the experience of the restored, unaffected dynamics of the coastal protected area. What has been for many years a monotonous, intensively used agricultural site has since the dyke was removed, once again become a mosaic of reeds, redds, and extensive salt grassland landscape. Undiscovered at first glance: large parts of the protected area include a very special type of moor - the coastal flood moor, which can only be found in this form on the Baltic Sea coast.

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Comment on the work at DINA: "Always exciting - how long the traps stay in place, despite sometimes harsh coastal winds... and curious cattle...". (N. Seifert)

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