Biotope network & species protection
The creation, preservation and maintenance of measures for the protection and conservation of nature and landscape in the Rodgau district is our task.
Biodiversity
To preserve biodiversity, the measures support endangered species. There are a large number of rare species in the local districts for which the city of Rodgau assumes responsibility by developing and financing measures.
Endangered species
- Moor frog
- Spadefoot toad
- Nightjar
- Ducat butterfly
- House martin
- Skylark
- Various bat species
These species are supported by creating new or maintaining existing feeding and development habitats.
Species close to settlements
However, species can be promoted not only in nature and the countryside, but also close to settlements. At the end of 2018, a species protection house for house martins, bats and cavity-nesting birds (great tit, blue tit, nuthatch, starling, tree sparrow, common redstart) was therefore erected at the Rollwald camp cemetery.
Legally required measures
In addition to the voluntary species protection measures, the town of Rodgau is regularly obliged by law to implement measures to compensate for and replace structural interventions in nature and the landscape. This is usually triggered by the development of new building areas and construction projects outside the built-up urban area.
Compensation or replacement measures
The city of Rodgau has set itself the task of compensating for the nature conservation-related interventions in nature and the landscape in Rodgau within its own urban area as far as possible. To this end, studies have been carried out to identify areas that are worth preserving from a nature conservation point of view and can be ecologically upgraded. As a rule, these compensatory or replacement measures are carried out before the actual intervention.
Evaluation of measures
The nature conservation value of the measure is determined with value points. These are then credited to an eco-account held by the district's lower nature conservation authority. These value points are then debited in the event of subsequent intervention in nature and the landscape.
Environmental report
In addition to the tasks already presented, statements on environmentally relevant projects are drawn up in cooperation with the Environment Department, the annual environmental report with a wide range of environmental topics for the city of Rodgau is prepared, an annual environmental day is organised and environmental advice is offered as a public service for citizens on a wide range of environmentally relevant topics.