BOP Principles

BOP is flexible and meets the company’s needs. Some principles form the basis of all BOP activities and measures:

• Minimize sealing to allow animal migrations between habitats and biotopes and to allow rainwater uptake
• Retaining rainwater for flood prevention and groundwater recharge
• Creating sites low in nutrients for more colourful and diverse plant communities
• Use of native plants, as they have become rare in their dispersal and the areas gained become stepping stones, thus strengthening the green infrastructure.
• No use of chemical fertilizers pesticides or insecticides to prevent poisoning of beneficial and rare species as well as all other organisms
• Promotion of habitat diversity to stimulate a stable ecosystem
• Allow wildlife in some areas, so that the dense vegetation can provide habitats
• Pay attention to differentiated maintenance, since the natural elements develop and fully unfold with the maintenance

Here you will find examples of how you can put these principles into practice.