Nsg Weseraue

Summary

The Weseraue Nature Reserve preserves the meandering Weser river and its extensive floodplain. A crucial haven for countless rare birds, protected fish, amphibians, reptiles, and diverse plant life.

Description

The Weseraue Nature Reserve preserves a broad, meandering river landscape of the Weser and its extensive, predominantly extensively used floodplain areas. The area is characterized by a diverse mosaic of meadows, pastures, riparian woodlands, willow bushes, flowing and standing waters, ditches, small bodies of water, and puddles. This habitat structure creates a unique, functionally connected river valley cultural landscape. The Weseraue is of supra-regional importance year-round for water, wading, and meadow birds, as well as other bird species tied to wetlands. It serves as a central breeding, resting, molting, feeding, migration, retreat, and wintering ground, particularly within the framework of the "Weseraue" European Bird Protection Area. Here, rare fish like the Spined loach and European weather loach, as well as endangered amphibians, reptiles, and numerous special plant species and communities, find a protected habitat. The area is also valuable for scientific and natural history reasons, and due to its rarity, special character, and prominence as a river landscape of the Middle Weser.