The project
Project team
Introduction
On this page, we would like to introduce you to the team members of the LIFE Godwit Flyway. GrassBirdHabitats is managed by multiple so-called beneficiaries. The coordinating beneficiary is the Ministry for the Environment, Energy and Climate Protection of Lower Saxony (MU). It has commissioned its subordinate authority Lower Saxony Water Management, Coastal and Nature Protection Agency (NLWKN) to implement the project.
Project management & coordinating beneficiary
Dr. Andreas Barkow
Project manager
NLWKN
Nature Conservation Station Dümmer
Am Ochsenmoor 52
49448 Hüde
+49 5443 20468-16
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Dr. Ulf Bauchinger
Scientific coordinator
NLWKN
Nature Conservation Station Unterelbe
Alte Hafenstraße 2
21729 Freiburg/Elbe
+49 4779 92681-18
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Dr. Stefan Heitefuss
Coordinating beneficiary
MU
Department 62 – Natura 2000, Protected Areas
Archivstraße 2
30169 Hannover
+49 511 120-3531
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Partners
On this page you will soon find all members of our project team. Until then, here is an overview of our partners.
There are four associated beneficiaries in the project – two of them in Portugal and one in Germany and in The Netherlands, respectively. And there is an associated partner in The Gambia, West Africa:
- University of Aveiro (UA)
- Companhia das Lezírias (CL)
- Natur- und Umweltschutzvereinigung Dümmer e. V. (NUVD)
- University of Groningen (RUG)
- Department of Parks and Wildlife Management (DPWM)