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Information on the fire salamander - monitoring 2025 to 2028 in the city of Chemnitz
As part of the Natural Heritage - Studies for the Documentation of Species and Habitat Types funding guideline, the Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland (BUND), Landesverband Sachsen e.V. is investigating the occurrence of the fire salamander(Salamandra salamandra) and its larvae along selected watercourses in the districts of Zwickau, Central Saxony, the Erzgebirgskreis and the urban area of Chemnitz.
The aim of the project is to record the populations of this amphibian species, analyse their vitality and reproductive success and derive protective measures - particularly for the ecological enhancement of small watercourses.
On the basis of Section 37 (2) SächsNatSchG, employees and representatives of the nature conservation authorities, the specialist authorities, the municipalities and the police are authorised to enter properties or drive on suitable paths during daylight hours in order to prepare and implement nature conservation and landscape management measures. Within the scope of sentence 1, they are also authorised to carry out surveys, nature conservation observations, measurements and soil investigations as well as similar official business. The time of day is from 6.00 am to 10.00 pm. Land in the open countryside or in the forest may also be entered by the group of persons named in sentence 1 for nature conservation observations during the night, whereby disturbance of hunting activities must be avoided.
In accordance with Section 37 (2) SächsNatSchG, landowners and other authorised persons must be notified. As the surveys carried out as part of the above-mentioned investigations cover a large number of properties, notification will take the form of a public announcement.
BUND Landesverband Sachsen e.V. is carrying out the following measures in the districts of Grüna, Hilbersdorf and Chemnitz with its own staff between 2025 and 2028:
- Collection of data on habitat types of the FFH Directive
- Collection of data on the occurrence of the species "Salamandra salamandra" in streams and waterside areas
- Collection of data on the occurrence of the species "Salamandra salamandra" in the land habitat
- Determination of water quality chemically/physically, in individual cases macrozoobenthos determination on watercourses in the study area
BUND Landesverband Sachsen e.V.
Fire salamander project
Contact person: Heidi Enderlein
Street of Nations 122, 09111 Chemnitz
E-mail: heidi.enderlein(at)bund-sachsen.de
Further information at: www.bund-sachsen.de/feuersalamander