Between election campaign and forest protection: How the Bundestag candidates stand for sand mining

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Altdorf/Winkelhaid - For more than 50 years, the federal government has been fighting for the preservation of the Reichswald, in which the Bamberg sand- and gravel-baggery wants to dismantle sand. Shortly before the federal election, the conservationists now demand support from politics.

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A Bamberg sand mining company wants to clear 39 hectares of forest in the Reichswald near Altdorf. There is massive resistance against this. In the shortest time, the Altdorf citizens' initiative has founded itself again, numerous forest protectors are committed against the project. The planned mining area has been under strict protection since the last century as a bann forest, it is additionally a Natura 2000 area. Here, endangered species suc…