Overview
- On NDR Talk Show, she vowed to tattoo “Danke, Friedrich” on 30% of her right upper arm if Chancellor Friedrich Merz secures protection of 30% of Germany’s land and seas by 2030.
- Her new ARD film, Deutschland, deine Gärten, argues that the country’s roughly 17 million private gardens can support native wildlife when managed as habitat.
- The documentary highlights simple steps such as replacing gravel yards with plants, greening roofs, and sowing wildflower meadows to help insects.
- She warned that hedgehogs and many butterfly and wild bee species are threatened, citing EU figures she said show many soils and ecosystems in poor condition.
- The film uses night cameras to reveal urban visitors like hedgehogs, martens, and foxes, inviting viewers to see backyards as shared living space for people and wildlife.