Plenum project area

Plenum is a new conservation strategy to achieve environmental and nature conservation goals not through government action from above, but on a voluntary basis together with the population from below. Plenum is committed to the conservation and development of biodiversity in large-scale, representative cultural landscapes. Building on the biotope mapping and the species conservation programme, the LUBW, in cooperation with the District Offices for Nature Conservation and Landscape Conservation and a scientific advisory board, identified an area culture with 19 core areas covering both nature reserves and typical cultural landscapes. From this area backdrop, the Plenum Conception is currently being implemented in the following 5 project areas: Western Lake Constance, Allgäu-Oberschwaben, Reutlingen County, Heckengäu and Kaiserstuhl natural garden. The areas occupy 13 % of the country’s area.