Großes Moor (near Becklingen)
Development
The original bog had been drained since the 1950s and largely converted to grassland in order to establish small rural settlements here. Since then the state of Lower Saxony has purchased large areas. Through water retention measures it is intended that the original bog landscape can be recreated. Problems are being caused, though, by cultivated blueberries and black cherries, neophytes that have become widespread across the area.
Fauna
As a result of its seclusion the bog provides an important habitat for the very rare black grouse which is threatened by extinction. Together with the neighbouring and largely contiguous areas around the Munster and Bergen-Hohne Training Areas, the Lüneburg Heath Nature Reserve, the Schießplatz Unterlüß the firm of Rheinmetall and the Großen Heide near Unterlüß, the Kiehnmoor and Brambostel Moor, the bogs near Sittensen, the Ostenholz Moor, the Meißendorf Lakes and the Bannetzer Moor this part of the Lüneburg Heath provides a home to the largest single community of black grouse in the North German Plain.
Notes
- ^ "Bundesamt für Naturschutz (Birkhuhn)". Archived from the original on 2011-07-21. Retrieved 2009-06-11.
- ^ "Bundesamt für Naturschutz (Moore bei Sittensen)". Archived from the original on 2007-10-25. Retrieved 2009-06-11.