Biosphere Reserve "Oberlausitz Heath and Lake Landscape

The century-long practised lake culture left a harmonic landscape with dune forests, wet meadows and fields, river flood plains and heath areas behind – a unique diversity of habitats was created. Dry heath land and bogs are situated in immediate neighbourhood, unspoiled impenetrability with expansive open land alternate.
The Oberlausitz is home to a multiplicity of endangered species that have vanished everywhere else. 153 upper plant species from Saxony's red list are here in this area represented. Special flora treasures are for example sundew, bog-heather and different kinds of orchids. Part of the over 150 right now existing breeding bird's species is the crane, hoopoe, great bittern and white-tailed eagle. Nearly every village can call a stork pair their own. Remarkable is also the otter population, which is here the highest in Europe. When in autumn the first foggy days arrive and the lakes are being drained you will be able to spot one of the rare white-tailed eagle or ospreys.
To accommodate nature's uniqueness, one part of this especially valuable natural landscape became the 13th "UNESCO-Biosphere Reserve  Oberlausitz Heath and Lake Landscape", Saxony's only protected area of its kind with an area of 30.102 hectare.