Overview

• Former chancellor Olaf Scholz toured a low-peatland site near Plessow in Potsdam-Mittelmark as part of an agrar‑nature initiative near Werder an der Havel.
• Brandenburg agriculture minister Hanka Mittelstädt joined the visit, with the ministry presenting the program’s objectives to balance farming with biodiversity.
• Farmers at the site use water buffalo to manage wet areas while maintaining productive land use, according to the ministry.
• The Werder-area project is one of eight state-funded cooperatives in Brandenburg that coordinate nature and climate measures across farm boundaries.
• Scholz also visited Weinberg Swillus to see a grazing project with sheep as another example of habitat management.