Biological Portfolio - Germany

1. Flora &
Flor a
Fauna
in Verden (Aller)

2. Table of Contents
 Flora
 Flora in Verden and around in general
 List of flowers, plants etc.
 Oak Trees
 Geest & Marshland
 Between Daisies and Dandelions
 Fauna
 List of animals
 Horses
 Little Owls
 Deers
 Storks
 Aller River
 NABU – Protection of our nature

3. Flor a in gener al
- Green landscape
- Lots of leaf trees
- Mixed forests out of leaf trees and conifers
- more than 3000 kinds of flowers grow in the
whole of our state, most of them in Verden as
well
- North German Plain
- Weser-Aller Plain

4. List of flower s and
plants
 Trees  Flowers  Crops
 Beeches  Daisies  Peas
 Birches  Dandelions  Corn
 Oak Trees  Sunflowers  Asparagus
 Lime Trees  Snowdrops  Barley
 Pine Trees  Tulips  Oat
 Chestnut Trees  Clover  Potatos
 Cherry Blossom  Wheat
Trees  Rye
 Fir Trees  Sugar beet
 Spruces

5. Geest & Mar schland
 Geest and marsh are especially found in
the north of Germany
 While geest is very arid, bald and low in
nutrient, marshland is nutrient-rich and
rather humid

6. “ Leester Mar sch“ near Br eme

7. Geest landscape

8. „ Ver dener Dünen“
Source: wikipedia.org

9. Oak Tr ees
 Oak trees are usually seen in forests
 They can grow up to be 50 m high and
live for about 1200 years
 Its stock can be 3m thick
 It blooms from April to October, its fruit is
the acorn

10. Oak Tr ee

11. Daisies and Dandelions
 Meadows and fields in Germany are usually
full of Dandelions and Daisies
 The stalk of a Dandelion can be about 30 cm
long and later the Dandelion becomes the
so-called „blowball“ and the wind carries its
seeds across the meadows
 Daisies are smaller and at night they close
their bloom
 Daisies bloom in spring and summer,
Dandelions usually in April and May

12. Fauna in Ver den

13. more than 70 types of marmals
List of animals live in Verden and around
 Birds • Mammals and Wild Life
 Little Owls •Horses  Fishes
 Storks •Cows  Carps
 Bluetit •Sheep  Eels
 Blackbird •Hedgehogs  Zanders
 Magpie •Racoons  Trouts
 Woodpeckers •Squirrels
 Swans •Snails
 Herons •Bats  Insects
 Ducks •Moles  Butterfly
 Sparrows •Rats  Bees
 Geese •Deers  Spiders
 Cormorants •Foxes  Ants
 Hawks •Martens  Caterpillars
 Buzzards •Wolves  Grasshoppers
•Rabbits

14. Hor ses
 "Verden" is very similar to the word for
"Horses" in German (Pferde)
 Verden is considered as an "equestrian town„
 big presence of horse breeding and equestrian
sports
 The German Horse Museum is situated right in
the town center
 "500 Horseshoes“ project – the names of
sponsors and famous equestrians of our town
were each branded into a horseshoe, which
were set into the pavement.

15. One of 500
hor seshoes
Source: verden.de

16. Downtown
Source: verden.de

17. The F.E.I. World Dressage
Championships for Young
Horses are going to take
place in Verden for the 14th
time this year.
Source: verden-tunier.de

18. Little Owls
 The Little Owl breeds near the Aller and Weser
rivers, often close to farm-steads, grassland
and fruit trees
 It hunts mice, insects and earthworms
 Reasons for the population decline of Little
Owls were mostly the loss of breeding burrows
and destruction of green areas
 Nature conversation projects set up 120 new
nest holes, planted 350 fruit trees and the
project will be continued for a few more years
 more than eleven new breeding pairs have
been counted ever since the project has been
started

19. A picture of a
Little Owl in
Verden taken by
the NABU
(Nature and
Biodiversity
Conversation
Union)

20. Stor ks
 are very common in Verden
 since 2003 there is a nursing ward for sick,
hurt and weak storks
 storks are being returned to the wild in late
summer
 many storks come to breed in the valleys of
the Aller and Weser river
 station is accessible to everyone

21. Sour ce: wor tman.wor dpr ess.com

22. Aller river
 the lower part of the Aller runs through our town
 later it discharges into the Weser river
 is a total of 263 km long
 one of Germany's largest rivers
 one of the most untouched rivers
 federal waterway (for boats of waterway class II (length
x width: 58 m x 9.50 m)
 flows through lots of meadows, forests and little
villages
 a place of rest and recovery because of low-impact
tourism

23. NABU – Protection of our nature
 NABU – the Nature and Biodiversity Conversation
Union
 they keep clean and renaturalize lots of places and
areas in Verden and all over the country
 that‘s why there's such large variety of animals and
flowers
 they give tips to the population on how to treat the
nature surrounding them
 the city of Verden itself declares that the protection
of nature and environment is an important task
 Of the 3000 kinds of flowers in our district, that we
know of, only half of them are not in danger of
dissapearing (2011)

24. Verden (Aller)