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WHAT-WE-DO: Environmental construction supervision (UBB) has the task of enforcing authorisation requirements on construction sites and ensuring that no prohibitions under Section 44 of the Federal Nature Conservation Act (BNatschG) are triggered. This paragraph prohibits
- to stalk, catch, injure or kill animals of specially protected species or to remove, damage or destroy their developmental forms from the wild,
- significantly disturb wild animals of strictly protected species and European bird species during the breeding, rearing, moulting, hibernation and migration periods; a significant disturbance is deemed to have occurred if the conservation status of the local population of a species deteriorates as a result of the disturbance,
- to remove from the wild, damage or destroy breeding or resting places of wild animals of specially protected species,
- taking wild plants of specially protected species or their developmental forms from the wild, damaging or destroying them or their habitats
Construction sites must therefore be regularly checked to see whether such prohibitions can be triggered, i.e. whether strictly or specially protected animal or plant species are present.
Such situations arise particularly at the start of construction work or on very long construction sites. Species regularly occur that seek out open, stony or sandy habitats, which are typical on construction sites. These areas are often compacted, resulting in damp areas or temporary waterholes that are particularly attractive to amphibians and some birds. These include bats, barn swallows, little ringed plovers, sand lizards and natterjack toads. To name just a few of the species we are currently dealing with.
The task of the UBB is then to detect such animals and prevent them from being killed or harmed. This is done either by collecting the animals and moving them to a suitable safe place nearby, or by excluding the areas from construction activities, at least temporarily. In extreme cases, the nature conservation authorities, which must be called in by UBB, can impose a construction ban.
As a "preventive measure", if colonisation by certain species can be expected, "deterrence measures" are used to try to make the areas so unattractive for the species concerned that they do not colonise in the first place (amphibian fencing, deterrence triangles, etc.).
Links to sources: 44 BNatSchG - single standard (gesetze-im-internet.de); Scaring - Wikipedia; Environmental monitoring - Wikipedia
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