As the bird nesting season gradually comes to an end, the seed harvesting season is only just beginning. Summer is [...]

In Budinci, we have begun establishing new grasslands that will combine the characteristics of dry and extensively managed meadows—typical of [...]

Meadows are priceless part of our landscape. They provide a home for many plants and animals, protect the soil, help [...]

Summer has long since turned into autumn, but the LIFE FOR SEEDS team is still collecting seeds for the seed [...]

Within the LIFE FOR SEEDS project “Conservation of priority grassland habitat types in Slovenia through the establishment of a seed [...]

As part of the LIFE FOR SEEDS project, a demonstration of two brush harvesters was held in Motvarjevci on Wednesday, [...]

LIFE project monitor Dr. Mitja Kaligarič spent the second day of his visit to monitor the LIFE FOR SEEDS project [...]

On Monday and Tuesday, 8 and 9 September, a monitoring visit for the LIFE FOR SEEDS project took place, attended [...]

Croatian Botanical Symposium is a biennial international event which is organized by the Croatian Botanical Society (HBOD). From 3rd to [...]

On Saturday, 23 August, the Notranjska Regional Park organised an event in Dolenja vas where visitors were introduced to the [...]

Between April and July 2025, German student Malte Knöppler completed a student internship at the Agricultural Institute of Slovenia as [...]

During the 2025 field season, the botanical part of the LIFE FOR SEEDS project team from the Agricultural Institute of [...]

This year, we planned brush harvesting of donor meadows at Planinsko polje, in order to obtain seed mixtures for grassland [...]

In Triglav National Park, grasslands in Radovna, Slemenova špica, Konjščica and Uskovnica are being restored. Seed mixtures, green hay or [...]

We have already restored most of the recipient plots in Triglav National Park, but a small part in Uskovnica remains [...]

At the peak of this year’s seed collection season, between July 4th and 11th, the third student research camp of [...]

On Friday, July 4th, 2025, the 36th Youth ornithological research camp concluded in Središče ob Dravi. The camp brought together [...]

The transition between spring and summer in the LIFE FOR SEEDS project has been fully dedicated to vegetation surveys and [...]

In mid-June, when the seeds of the erect brome in the meadows alongside the Drava river are fully ripe, we [...]

In mid-June we hosted colleagues from two Belgian LIFE project teams, namely of LIFE HARWIN and LIFE CONNEXIONS. Both projects [...]

Among the first flowering species in species-rich grasslands dominated by common sainfoin is Scorzonera humilis (viper's-grass). For two consecutive years, [...]

Over the past few days, we have collected the first 16 accessions in Goričko and Haloze, which are dominated by [...]

In May, as part of the LIFE FOR SEEDS project, DOPPS conducted two field meetings with farmers. The first meeting [...]

The exhibition is part of the project Conservation of Priority Grassland Habitats in Slovenia through the Establishment of a Seed [...]

In the summer seed collection action of July 2024, KIS and DOPPS gathered 7 kg of pure seed material by [...]

During the school holidays, we presented the LIFE FOR SEEDS project at a holiday week in the Dina Center in [...]

Effective land management requires managers to have a thorough understanding of the actual conditions in the field. We often monitor [...]

Notranjska Regional Park is actively participating in the LIFE FOR SEEDS project, which aims to conserve and restore species-rich meadows [...]

On 4 and 5 February 2025, DOPPS and Biotechnical Faculty of the University of Ljubljana organised a two-day event on [...]

In the Notranjska Regional Park area we focus on restoration of grasslands and fen habitats on moist to wet soils [...]

In the area of Lake Cerknica and Brejnice (Menišija) we carried out systematic vegetation surveys using a modified Braun-Blanquet method [...]

Besides spring, autumn is also an excellent time for planting seedlings and sowing seed mixtures. In September and October we [...]

In Triglav National park our summer activities in the LIFE FOR SEEDS project during the 2023 season were primarily seed [...]