Detailed description
The Federal Nature Conservation Act regulates the treatment of wild animals and wild plants as well as the protection of special areas, such as nature reserves and landscape protection areas.
You may not, without a reasonable reason, impair animal species or plant species and their habitats - often legally protected biotopes - as well as trees that are protected in Hamburg by the Tree Protection Ordinance through your actions.
If you want to carry out an action, an intervention, a plan or a project (for example a construction measure, a renovation or the commissioning of a system), you must inform the responsible authority. The responsible authority will then examine how likely it is that you could violate nature conservation bans during your measure.
You violate nature conservation law bans if your measure results in impacts on the protected assets (e.g. animals, plants, biotopes, trees, protected areas and natural monuments) that lead to a significant increase in the intensity of the impact on nature and the landscape compared to the previous state. The responsible authority must then clarify whether statutory exemptions apply or whether you need an exemption or exemption from the respective prohibitions in order to be able to carry out your project.
The keeping and breeding of invasive alien species is also prohibited and may require a permit.