http://www.sueddeutsche.de/sport/dfb-fussballerinnen-im-wm-halbfinale-und-dann-haelt-nadine-angerer-1.2540700
In der Tat waren wir stimmlich deutlich unterlegen - aber wir haben mit ca. 10 bis 20 Leuten öfter mal eine gute Gegenreaktion in unserer Ecke ausgelöst - witzig. Außerdem sind wir zweisprachig - im Gegensatz zu den meisten Franzosen - da kann man öfter mal ein Witzchen machen. Allez le blanc z.B.
25000 Zuschauer, darunter ca. 15000 Franzosen, 9000 Neutrale und ca. 1000 Deutsche.
Frankreich hätte den Sieg auf jeden Fall verdient gehabt - aber so ist Fußball. La tricolore hat dominiert, technisch besser gespielt, besser kombiniert und war 80 Minuten lang überlegen. Aber,
La Mannschaft hat bis zur letzten Sekunde gekämpft und dann tatsächlich gewonnen. Der deutsche Mythos der Unbesiegbarkeit im Elfmeterschießen hat sich mal wieder behauptet.
Gratulation.
Was immer wieder geil ist, ist die Tatsache, daß wir ganz relaxt mit dem Fahrrad da hin fahren können und das ca. 10 Minuten dauert. Entspannter gehts nicht mehr.
The German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation announced
on Thursday that it will turn 62 military bases into tranquil nature
reserves.
"We are seizing a historic opportunity with this conversion -- many areas that were once no-go zones are no longer needed for military purposes," Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks said, according to Agence France-Presse.
German military reforms have allowed the country to set aside 76,600 acres of forests, marshes, meadows and moors for wildlife. "We are fortunate that we can now give these places back to nature," Hendricks said.
Ruth Schedlbauer, a spokeswoman for Germany's Federal Agency for Nature Conservation, told The Huffington Post that species like the middle spotted woodpecker, above, and lesser spotted eagle, below, will live in the sanctuaries.
The reserves will not only protect birds -- threatened bats and beetles will also thrive there, Schedlbauer said.
The majority of the former bases and training areas are in historic West Germany, west of the former Iron Curtain. The fortified borderlands that separated communist and capitalist Europe became accidental nature reserves during the Cold War. Many of these areas are now part of the European Green Belt , a chain of habitats that runs from Norway to Turkey.
A portion of the European Green Belt in the northern German village of Schlagsdorf.
"In the remoteness of the inhuman border fortifications of the Iron Curtain nature was able to develop nearly undisturbed," a Green Belt spokesperson told the Independent. "Today the European Green Belt is an ecological network and memorial landscape running from the Barents to the Black Sea."
"We are seizing a historic opportunity with this conversion -- many areas that were once no-go zones are no longer needed for military purposes," Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks said, according to Agence France-Presse.
German military reforms have allowed the country to set aside 76,600 acres of forests, marshes, meadows and moors for wildlife. "We are fortunate that we can now give these places back to nature," Hendricks said.
Ruth Schedlbauer, a spokeswoman for Germany's Federal Agency for Nature Conservation, told The Huffington Post that species like the middle spotted woodpecker, above, and lesser spotted eagle, below, will live in the sanctuaries.
The reserves will not only protect birds -- threatened bats and beetles will also thrive there, Schedlbauer said.
The majority of the former bases and training areas are in historic West Germany, west of the former Iron Curtain. The fortified borderlands that separated communist and capitalist Europe became accidental nature reserves during the Cold War. Many of these areas are now part of the European Green Belt , a chain of habitats that runs from Norway to Turkey.
