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Anne-Sophie Knop talks about her job as a forester (Podcast)

2022-05-03T08:07:50.922Z


Anne-Sophie Knop was the youngest forester in Rhineland-Palatinate, got her own hunting ground at the age of 25, but today she works in administration. A podcast about climate change, women in the forest - and why Peter Wohlleben sees them critically.


Where is the place where I can ensure that the forest of tomorrow becomes a healthier one?

That's the question Anne-Sophie Knop asked herself before she left the forest for the time being, at least as a job last year.

First district at 25

Knop was 25 when she took over her territory in the Soonwald in the Rhein-Hunsrück district in 2018 as the youngest forester in Rhineland-Palatinate, more than 2000 football fields in size.

Characterized by a diverse flora, as many foresters would wish for, standing in the midst of cultivated spruce monocultures and asking themselves: Will I ever get my forest healthy again?

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The German forests are doing worse than they have in decades

A third of the land area in Germany is covered with forest.

Climate change is the biggest problem when we talk about forest dieback, says Anne-Sophie Knop.

But there are also the interests that pull at the forest and its forester: it is a place of recreation, business location and living space at the same time.

The question of how to combine all of this is one of the biggest questions in her profession, says Knop.

The forest condition survey by the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture from last year shows that too few answers have been given to the question in recent years.

It makes it clear that the German forests are doing worse than they have in decades.

But how do you change that?

"I wanted to think about this question again from the other side," says Anne-Sophie Knop.

After working for the Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry of the Environment for a short time, she has been a specialist at the German Forestry Council in Berlin since April 2021.

“I don't know whether I can make a difference when I talk about the forest.

It is important to understand that both sides are dependent on each other«.

When it comes to thinking about the state of our forests, you can't get past Peter Wohlleben in Germany.

Wohlleben, himself Förster, wrote several books.

His book »The Secret Life of Trees« became a bestseller and attracted attention throughout Germany.

Like most of her colleagues, Knop sees Wohlleben's statements quite critically.

"It's simply not true to accuse foresters of ignorance and indifference in their daily work, as Wohlleben keeps doing," says Knop.

With her work, she now has to work through some of what Wohlleben brought to the population.

In the podcast, Anne-Sophie Knop explains why there is still no patent remedy for the forest of tomorrow and why more women would do their job well.


Source: spiegel

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