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Ausgezeichnet: Natur- und UNESCO Geopark TERRA.vita ist Vorbild für Nachhaltigkeit
Herzlich Willkommen
im Natur- und Geopark
Gut geleitet
unterwegs
Faszination
Erdgeschichte
Welcome!
Whether silently admiring or actively enjoying, what the last 300 million years of Earth's very moving history have left behind can be experienced in a very special way in the TERRA.vita Nature Park.
TERRA.vita! TERRA.vita! The name of the Nature and Geopark literally means "Life history of the Earth" – a course that did not always run so smoothly. Uplifting and erosion, flooding and glaciation, desert climate and permafrost - entire worlds perished and new ones were created again. The animal, fungal, and plant worlds adapted themselves to the geological upheavals. Sea beds folded into steep ridges, tropical forests pressed into anthracite, entire mountain ranges pushed aside by massive glaciers. Unbelievable, all the things that the stones, as witnesses, report
Aktuelles
TERRA.vita feiert 10-jähriges Jubiläum als UNESCO Global Geopark
Klimadialog mit Astrophysiker Harald Lesch: TERRA.vita feiert zehnjähriges Jubiläum als UNESCO Global Geopark
20 Jahre Globales Geopark Netzwerk – weltweite Wettbewerbe gestartet
Natur- und Geopark TERRA.vita koordiniert den Wettbewerb für unsere Region – HIER geht`s zur Wettbewerbsseite!
TERRA.vita
About us
The Nature and Geopark TERRA.vita was founded in 1962, and until 2002 was called the Naturpark nördlicher Teutoburger Wald – Wiehengebirge (the Nature Park of Northern Teutoburger Forest and Wiehen Mountains). But more than just the name has changed in the last several years – we are now one of only 7 German and 169 Geoparks worldwide that have been recognized since November 2015 as UNESCO Global Geopark.
A Global Geopark, like TERRA.vita, is a region within reasonable boundaries that has a significant geological heritage, has a functioning management, and contributes to regional development, environmental education, and the creation of a natural recreational infrastructure. The status and development of these parks are reviewed every four years, because the label Global Geopark is above all a sign of quality!
300 Mio.
Years of geological history
approx.
1550 km2
1550 km2
size
min. 3 Mio.
age
Our
Tasks and goals
EXPERIENCE
2800 km
Hiking trails
and circular routes
and circular routes
4000 km
Themed tours and
long-distance cycle routes
long-distance cycle routes
I like being outdoors
Several thousand kilometers of hiking and cycling trails, plus educational and walking paths, viewpoints, sights, climbing opportunities, excursions, guided tours and adventure offers:
Welcome to the largest outdoor fitness and wellness studio far and wide! Welcome to the TERRA.vita Nature and Geopark!
UNDERSTAND
Earth history & soil of facts
Education and communication
On the following pages we do not offer a crash course in geology, we do not want to “lecture” anyone or provide them with dry information. In fact, we believe that a trip, tour or excursion is much more useful and makes it much more fun to experience and understand TERRA.vita.
But: Our animated TERRA.genesis films on the history of the earth are really entertaining. And school lessons become really exciting with the ground case or in our TERRA.park and it can't hurt to know that a terminal moraine is not a fish, can it?
PROTECT
Nature conservation
and landscape management
and landscape management
Ecological station
Osnabrücker Land
NATURA 2000? Ever heard of it?
Discover much more.
Here you will find more detailed information and an overview of the NATURA 2000 sites in the district of Osnabrück. The area cooperations Artland/Hase and Nördlicher Teutoburger Wald/Wiehengebirge are responsible for the management of the areas.
On their own linked website, the area cooperatives provide information on FFH areas, protected area regulations and funding programs and offer advice on these topics.
Appreciate
Regional & cultural heritage
Protect regional products, producers, weekly markets and cultural heritage.
Valuable products have been produced and marketed in our cultural landscape for centuries. In a comparatively short period of time, globalization and industrialization have greatly changed traditional production methods and consumer behaviour - not always and everywhere to the benefit of people, animals and the environment. In accordance with the tasks of a nature and geopark, we want to preserve and protect our historical forms of land use and our nature and promote regional economic cycles.
We are passionate about the production and sale of regional products and are therefore happy to support producers, direct marketers, retailers and consumers as well as initiatives that follow the philosophy “from the region for the region”.
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