Excursion ‚Rewilding Tennenlohe‘
Excursion of the MA Seminar ‚Urban Natures in the Anthropocene‘
led by Prof. Dr. Sandra Jasper
Together with our Master’s students, we visited the nature conservation area ‚Tennenloher Forst‘, a former military training ground just opposite the Institute of Geography. This area was shaped by decades of intense contamination through military use. Today, it functions as a unique habitat for rare species, especially sand biotopes, and as a laboratory for testing innovative approaches to conservation including grazing by Przewalski horses as landscape managers.
We were guided through this ‚Franconian Desert‘ by conservation manager Stefan Mümmler from LPV Mittelfranken who told us about the site’s military history, its biodiversity, and a recent wildfire. In the MA seminar ‚Urban Natures in the Anthropocene‘, we engage with different theoretical perspectives on urban natures and examine how the planetarity of ecological change is elucidated in local ways of place-making.
Photos: Lena Schlegel