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Weggler, M., A. Bossert, C. Glauser, W. Müller & P. Tröndle

Die Ala und ihre Reservate: hundert Jahre Einsatz für die Schaffung und das Management von Schutzgebieten in der Schweiz.

2009

106

77–86

Key words
(von 1994 bis 2006 vergeben)

Ala, Geschichte, Vogelschutz, Naturschutzgebiet, Gebietsschutz, Feuchtgebiet, Biographie, Albert Hess, Friedrich Siegfried, Josef Bussmann, Julie Schinz, Fritz Gerber, Ernst Hänni

Schlagwort_Vogelart
(wissenschaftlich)

Schlagwort_Vogelart
(deutsch)

Schweiz, Bern, Fanel, Heidenweg, Fräschelsweiher, Häftli, Wengimoos, Gerlafinger Weiher, Weissenau, Luzern, Baldeggersee, Aargau, Boniswilerried am Hallwilersee, Obwalden, Alpnacherried, Schwyz, Lauerzersee, Frauenwinkel, Zürich, Pfäffikersee, Unterer Greifensee, Neeracherried, Schaffhausen, Untere Rheininsel Rüdlingen

deutsch

Abhandlung

Hundred years of commitment for the designation and management of nature reserves in Switzerland by the Ala, Swiss Society for the Study and Conservation of Birds. – This article summarises the conservation effort of the Ala, Swiss Society for the Study and Conservation of Birds, in the past hundred years in Switzerland. Initially, several exceptionally active members of the Ala were able to establish protected areas in wetlands based on private contracts between land owners and the Ala. By the time the second world war broke out, the Ala managed as a private organisation 34 wetland sites mainly on the Swiss Plateau covering approximately 55 km2. The war period and the following two decades saw a setback in the conservation work of the Ala because several important sites (e.g. Wauwilermoos, canton of Lucerne, and Gossauer Riet, canton of Zurich) were destroyed by large-scale drainage initiatives to enhance the autarky of the Swiss food production. However, at the same time governmental regulations allowed the formal protection of several key sites. As all Ala reserves are nowadays protected by governmental decrees, the Ala focuses on the task of proposing new and better management practices based on long-term monitoring of breeding birds in all 16 major reserves still managed by the Ala.