Reserves

On the basis of maps of the protected area documentation, the LUNG digitalisation templates were drawn in a scale of 1:50.000, on the basis of which a shape file was created. It should be noted that the scale-related inaccuracy was already 50 m. Due to the two-stage transfer process from the ordinance cards (e.g.Corridor maps or forest base maps based on the digitising template into the shapefile probably even resulted in greater inaccuracies than 50 m. In the following years, digitising templates were gradually created in a scale of 1:10.000, on the basis of which the quality of the shape file was improved by on-screen digitisation against the background of topographic maps, later also orthophotos. For the newly designated NSGs since 2006, digital geometries are already being created as part of the designation process on behalf of the Ministry of the Environment/Ministry of Agriculture, Environment and Consumer Protection (as regulator). These will be integrated into the data collection of the NSG’s areas after designation. The areas of the individual NSGs are therefore available in this database with varying accuracy. For the precise determination of the boundaries of a nature reserve, the maps belonging to the Regulation (i.e., the corridor maps after 1990) must always be used. With the law on the Biosphere Reserve River Landscape Elbe Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Biosphere Reserve-Elbe-Law – BRElbeG M-V) of 15 January 2015, all nature reserves within the scope of this Act have been repealed on 1.2.2015 (entry into force of the BRElbeG M-V). At the same time, care zones have been identified that are comparable to protected areas in terms of protection intensity and regulatory content. The care zones (PZ) of the Biosphere Reserve River Landscape Elbe M-V are therefore managed in the shape file of the nature reserves. [Note: In the Biosphere Reserves Schaalsee and Southeast-Rügen, which were built earlier, the core and care zones are explicitly designated as a nature reserve, so there are formal nature reserves within these biosphere reserves.]