What's that creeping around? What lives, hums, builds, predates, eats, chirps, spins, crawls and burrows in our urban area and in the wide metropolitan region around Hamburg? Which ecological niches favour the great diversity of wild life in our immediate neighbourhood? What are the challenges - for us humans and for the animals that live among us? This year's focus of the Long Day of Urban Nature is dedicated to the wildlife in our neighbourhood.
We are also taking part and can promise you one thing: It's going to be wild!
The programme will be published on 20 May 2025, registration starts on Monday, 2 June at 10 am!
Our programme:
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Wild animals in the city
What do wild animals do in the city? There is a worldwide phenomenon - "wild animals" move into cities, often without us even realising it. In the museum, we can look at them up close and even touch them with a knowledgeable explanation. A neighbourhood meeting, so to speak ...
Date
21 June 2025 at 10-11.30 am
Location
Museum of Nature Hamburg - Zoology
Kind
Guidance
Target group
Adults, families, young people, children, senior citizens
Meeting point
Museum education
Name of the guide
Holger Krohn
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Trade in
"exotic" animals - practical species conservation in the museum
Snake belts, crocodile bags, fur coats. What wild animals can become. Many "exotic" animals still end up as fashion accessories or lifestyle medicine. How species protection offences are prosecuted today and what you should look out for in holiday souvenirs, with many practical examples.
Date
21 June 2025, 10 a.m. to 11.30 a.m.
Place
Museum of Nature Hamburg - Zoology
Kind
Guidance
Target group
Adults, families, young people, children, senior citizens
Meeting point
Tiger Lounge
Name of the guide
Daniel Bein
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"Wild life" between motorway and residential area - nature tour in the Eidelstedter Feldmark
Surrounded by the motorway, housing estates and Kieler Straße, the Eidelstedter Feldmark is a nature reserve that has a lot to offer. Agricultural land, streams, retention basins and wet meadows provide a habitat for many species. Come with us on a discovery tour and experience the diversity of nature in our midst.
Date
21 June 2025 from 14-16 h
Location
Dörpsweg 2 (Koyen House), 22527 Hamburg
Kind
Excursion
Target group
Adults, families, young people, children, senior citizens
Nature guide
Monika Hausdorf (NABU) and Bernhard Hausdorf (LIB Hamburg)
Please remember to wear weatherproof clothing and bring binoculars. The event will be cancelled if it rains continuously.