• #News 30.04.2026

    Back in the forest soon! We are looking for planting guides who would like to support our environ­mental protec­tion activi­ties. Here are our next autumn dates 2026 02/10 Bremer­haven 11/11 Wehrheim 12/11 Wehrheim 20/11 Berlin 21/11 Berlin 21/11 Ludwigs­burg 25/11 Munich 26/11 Munich […]

  • #News 03.03.2026

    Planting deciduous trees together On 21 March, the Day of the Forest, something very special is happe­ning in the Harz: children and parents are writing the future together. Just one day before World Water Day, we are all getting stuck in together – with […]

  • #News 18.12.2025

    2025: 95,600 site-appro­priate deciduous trees of 23 diffe­rent species were planted on 28.15 hectares of former conife­rous forest damage areas Hamburg, 18 December 2025 – The environ­mental protec­tion associa­tion Trinkwasserwald e. V. draws an impres­sive balance for 2025: 95,600 site-appro­priate deciduous trees […]

  • #Hotspots

    Since 2017, drought and bark beetle infesta­tion have caused more than 900,000 hectares of forest across Germany — mostly non-native and monocul­tural conife­rous forests — to die off, as the satel­lite data published in September 2025 by the German Aerospace Center […]

  • #Hotspots

    CO2 footprint in Germany – how deciduous forests help On average, each person in Germany causes 10.4 tonnes of CO2 equiva­lents per year. These emissions are made up of various areas: consump­tion accounts for the largest share at 28 percent […]

  • #Forest. Water. Values.

    Mushrooms are among the oldest living organisms on Earth. Their history goes back more than one billion years – long before the first plants or animals existed. Fossil finds show that mushrooms were already present in the early develo­p­mental phases […]

  • #Forest. Water. Values.

    One hectare of Trinkwasserwald… … may sound incon­spi­cuous – about the size of one and a half football pitches — yet something great happens on this area: year after year, up to 800,000 litres more clean ground­water are generated here on average than […]

  • #Forest. Water. Values.

    Trees are true masters of adapt­a­tion and survival Their growth is far more than an impres­sive natural pheno­menon – it is the result of a long evolu­tio­nary develo­p­ment and the basis for the stabi­lity of entire ecosys­tems.   […]

  • #Forest. Water. Values.

    Ferns are among the oldest groups of plants on Earth… … their history goes back more than 350 million years, to the age of the dinosaurs. Even then, they covered large parts of the planet and shaped the early […]

  • #Forest. Water. Values.

    Leaves Hardly has autumn begun than the great spectacle of the seasons starts: the leaves turn bright red, golden and amber, detach from the crowns and whirl down to the ground in little dances – […]

  • #Forest. Water. Values.

    Water is the basis of all life on Earth … … and an indis­pensable resource for people, animals and plants. Without water we could not exist, because our bodies consist of more than the […]