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A moor for dry feet: The Schützenbergmoor near Oberhof is the only high moor educational trail in Thuringia. On a 230 meter long, barrier-free footbridge you can discover the five-hectare high moor and its rare flora and fauna.



The bog is 2,500 years old and two and a half meters thick. It grows by a

Drought damage and bark beetles: The Thuringian Forest is suffering. This is especially true for the Kyffhäuser area, because the small town of Artern is considered the driest place in Germany in 2020. Nowhere in Germany does it rain less than here. The fire brigade has problems with the extinguishing

Sometimes he's there, sometimes not. The Bauerngraben in the Harz Mountains is a real surprise bag and shows you what it would be like if a pond were simply no longer there due to the drought. The Bauerngraben is an episodic lake, also known as a shrink basin, into which the Glasbach seeps away. The

The Dubringer Moor in the district of Bautzen is one of the largest nature reserves in Saxony with its 1711 hectares. Here between the Elbe and Oder you will discover a true paradise for rare animal and plant species on your tour through the moor, past ponds and the floodplain of the Black Elster.



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A lack of precipitation is also a problem for our lakes and rivers. For example, forty centimeters less water than normal was measured in Lake Starnberg in 2018. That was the lowest level in 110 years. Downward trend. The lake southwest of Munich has not lost its beauty as a result, but who knows how

The forests suffer from stress: a lack of precipitation causes the soil to dry out and the groundwater to sink. This makes it more and more difficult for the trees to supply themselves with sufficient water - especially for the spruce, which with their shallow roots can no longer get to the groundwater

Around 11,700 years ago, when the last Ice Age came to an end, raised bogs formed all over Germany, including on the Hornisgrinde. The 1,165 meter high mountain in the northern Black Forest offered the perfect conditions for this - back then. Because human intervention and a lack of precipitation pose

The largest bog complex in southern Germany stretches from Rosenheim to the Alps. In the 19th century, people mined peat on a large scale in the raised bogs, as was the case with Rauchling. The result: dry heaths and bog forests. This makes projects for the renaturation of wetlands all the more important

Dry meadows and heaths, bare rocks and sun-tanned slopes - drought is poison for some animal and plant species, but an opportunity for others. The species-rich dry meadows in the Aargau Jura Park offer a unique habitat for rare flora and fauna. Here you will meet a colorful variety of insects, hares

It was only a year ago that dry cracks formed on the ground and numerous boats lay on dry land. Little snow in the winter months and a lack of precipitation in the spring months led to a dramatic drop in the water level of Switzerland's largest reservoir, the Sihlsee, in April 2020 - a deadly threat