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Tourism Quality Label an Local Food Product Label in Regard
of a Sustainable Development
Before the reserve start commercialise the tourism offer (ecotourism,
hotel, boating, etc.) and some of the well know food product (Lac-Saint-Pierre
smoked sturgeon, Baie-du-Febvre farmer Geese) of the territory we
need to be assure that they respect European standard label and
a sustainable development standard.
In that regard, we start, with our partners of the development
commission, a quality product program and we need to know if there
is other biosphere reserves that are already in this kind of exercises.
Contact: René Raiche , director, Lac-Saint-Pierre Biosphere
reserve. Email: info@biospherelac-st-pierre.qc.ca
Web links: www.biospherelac-st-pierre.qc.ca
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House and Network of Sustainability
©M.Leschnig - The house of Sustainability |
The house of Sustainability is an
information centre at Johanniskreuz, a well known place in the
palatinate forest close to the village Trippstadt, in the German
part of the transboundary biosphere reserve Pfälzerwalt/Vosges
du nord. It opened in march 2005 as a public installation by
the forestry adminstration Rhineland-palatinate in partnership
with Naturpark Pfälzerwald E.V., the responsible administration
for sustainable development in the palatinate forest region.
The projects main goal is to explain the expressions 'sustainability'
and 'biosphere reserve' and to stress the opportunities within.
Consumers - and their everyday life - are the most important
target groups in the first period. That is why topics such as
(renewable) energy, nutrition, leisure as well as facets of
regional culture (food, dialect, festivities) are also presented.
Programmes for children as well as leisure offers in the forest
landscape will be created in the next steps. |
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forestry administration structure with its ten offices in the
palatinate forest. Foresters are in charge with sustainable
development projects.The house of sustainability has a role
as a coordinating centre. Creating partnerships with organisations
which have similar goals is an important part of the concept.
These partners mostly originate from the economy and the social
field of sustainability. The information centre at Johanniskreuz
is built with traditional materials like wood, sandstone and
loam. It offers to visitors an exhibition as well as films which
highlight peoples' way of life and the possibilities and potentials
in the biosphere reserve to live in a more sustainable way.
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©M.Leschnig - The Shop with ecological food
and craft products |
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©M.Leschnig - The Shop with ecological
food and craft products
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The house contains a shop with ecological
food and craft products. An additional function is its role
as a meeting point in the geografic centre of the whole region.
In the surrounding areas, the visitors can find a garden with
regional plants, a meadow with fruit trees, a park with five
tracks for mountainbikers (300 km) and many hiking trails. At
Johanniskreuz , a digital newsletter is published five times
a year. It reaches about 2.000 contacts in the biosphere reserve.
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Contact: Michael Leschnig, Email: michael.leschnig@wald-rlp.de
Web links: www.hdn-pfalz.de
/ www.pfaelzerwald.de
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