In the middle of November, we transferred the first set of accessions from the seed bank in Jablje to its [...]

Slemenova špica is a very popular mountain destination in the Municipality of Kranjska Gora, with a relatively easy route from [...]

As part of the LIFE FOR SEEDS project, a new outdoor exhibition, titled About Meadows and Seeds, has been set [...]

This year, KIS and DOPPS planned brush harvesting of donor meadows at Planinsko polje, in order to obtain seed mixtures [...]

During the summer months, work on the project in Goričko is in full swing. The seeds have ripened again, and it’s [...]

Some plant species that we encounter while collecting seeds for our seed bank, have fleshy fruits - e.g. all three [...]

The exhibition SEEDS FOR LIFE has been circulating throughout Slovenia for two years. In May and June, the exhibit is [...]

In 2023, seedlings of purple moor grass Molinia caerulea, devil's-bit scabious Succisa pratensis and Davall's sedge Carex davalliana were grown [...]

During the search for well-preserved meadows in Goričko in March, we came across uncut patches of vegetation from last year [...]

In the Ormož Basins Nature Reserve (OBNR), we restored 2,1 ha of grassland in 2022 and 2023, using either green [...]

In the last days of December, we set up a new information desk within the LIFE FOR SEEDS project. This [...]

One of the key activities of LIFE FOR SEEDS project is the establishment of a seed bank, which can serve [...]

When we think of orchids, most of us first imagine plants with lush flowers decorating windowsills of many homes. However, [...]

In the scope of the project LIFE FOR SEEDS, we also undertook the restoration of habitats which were in poor [...]

At Goričko Nature Park we took advantage of the warm end of summer for drying and cleaning the seed mixtures [...]

In the beginning of November we concluded the first season of seed gathering for the seed bank of LIFE FOR [...]

As was already reported, KIS and DOPPS brush harvested seed mixtures for grassland restoration at Planinsko polje at the end [...]

Together with the end of summer, the first season of seed gathering for the establishment of seed bank in LIFE [...]

One of the main goals of the LIFE FOR SEEDS project is the establishment of the largest seed bank of [...]

Part of the LIFE FOR SEEDS project is also restoration of grasslands, that belong to habitat type turloughs (Natura code [...]

Summer months are the busiest months as the majority of project activities take place in the peak of the maturation [...]

Among meadows of habitat type 6210(*) that we are restoring within LIFE FOR SEEDS project, are also three plots in [...]

As already reported in April 2023, seeds of several species were collected in Goričko last year and their seedlings raised [...]

On 30th and 31st of May 2023, project partners of LIFE for SEEDS have carried out the fourth and final [...]

Between 3 and 5 May project partners of LIFE FOR SEEDS visited the third of four planned networking projects. We [...]

In autumn 2022, 25 purple mulleins Verbascum phoeniceum were planted onto grasslands under restoration in LIFE FOR SEEDS project in [...]

In April, the team of researchers from the Agricultural Institute of Slovenia working on the project LIFE FOR SEEDS published [...]

Between December 2022 and middle of March 2023 DOPPS' team visited 164 farms that manage species-rich grasslands on 20 Natura [...]

As part of the LIFE FOR SEEDS project, 25 purple mullein seedlings were planted. Purple mullein (Verbascum phoeniceum) [...]

In the past months, we have been very active in LIFE FOR SEEDS project at Goričko Nature Park. Firstly, we [...]

In the past two months, the Life for Seeds project has been intensively collecting seed mixtures in dry orchid meadows [...]

This spring and summer, as part of the LIFE for Seeds project, we tried to determine species-rich meadows from which [...]

In June, mixed DOPPS and KIS teams were gathering seeds on the southern embankment of Lake Ptuj for several days, [...]

In mid May, the subcontractor for vegetation surveys, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU), [...]

During 25.-27. May we visited the Czech Republic, as part of action E2, to see restored grasslands in the White [...]

The first one of the four planned networking visits was performed between 22nd and 24th March. We visited the Centre [...]

Notranjska Regional Park started to perform activities for LIFE FOR SEEDS project in September 2021. A field survey helped identify [...]

Ormož Basins Nature Reserve, owned by DOPPS – BirdLife Slovenia, covers approximately 66 ha. It consists of six lagoons, pastures, [...]