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

On Saturday, April 11th, 2026, the three LIFE projects currently being implemented in Notranjska Regional Park – LIFE ORNAMENTAL-IAS, LIFE [...]

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

The Grand Pust Carnival in Cerknica once again attracted a large crowd to the town this year, creating a lively [...]

Although our knowledge of the living world surrounding us is becoming more complete each day, even in densely populated areas [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]

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

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, [...]