Land acquisition project: Kleiner Gollinsee
Brandenburg

Where the bird life is delighted by an intact reed belt

Landscape type (Biotope)

Almost 4.0 ha of clear-water lake with a depth of up to 2.80 m and adjacent wet meadows. Habitat of the Eurasian Otter, Great Crested Grebe and Common Kingfisher. The Reed Bunting, Reed Warbler and Great Crested Grebe breed in the largely intact reed belt, which is up to 3 m wide. The Common Cuckoo uses the nest of the Reed Warbler to lay its eggs.

Threat Factors

A former bathing lake with uncontrolled barbecue areas and littering near the shoreline. Today, the remote geographical location of the Kleiner Gollinsee behind the village of Bebersee occasionally tempts people to go fishing without a permit.

The increasing lack of precipitation in recent years has led to the degradation of the moorland wet meadows and the drying out of the broken Alder marsh forests around the lake and along the overflow channel from the Großer Gollinsee to the Kleiner Gollinsee, and thus to the loss of suitable breeding habitats for meadow birds and the abandonment of the Common Crane breeding grounds.

The reasons for and the aims of conservation

Ending the use of the Kleiner Gollinsee and its shoreline for leisure activities. Ensuring the undisturbed nature of the lake and the surrounding reed beds for waterbird and reed-dwelling species and the Eurasian Otter.

Our project commitment

Thanks to our quick decision-making and the great support of our donors we were able, after difficult negotiations, to purchase the "Kleiner Gollinsee" on the western flank of the Schorfheide-Chorin biosphere reserve in Brandenburg against robustly represented third-party interests.

By purchasing the first wet meadows and an Alder marsh forest in 2005, a historic Common Crane breeding ground was secured in the long term.

The purchase of further wet meadows near the shore is planned.

Dominant species (Fauna/Flora)

Eurasian Otter, Common Kingfisher, Eurasian Reed Warbler, Great Crested Grebe.

Your donation enables the purchase of further ecologically-valuable plots of land.