Our team is definitely not sitting idle, they’re running over the sleeping ground squirrels’ heads and working on clearing future pastures. For example, on the Muránska plain. You surely know the ground squirrel site Biele vody, which is very popular for the purpose of observing and “feeding” ground squirrels, sort of like a ground squirrel safari.
For example in the Tisovský kras area:
A local farm has also recently had its grike fields excluded from subsidies. This story is familiar to many farmers and can shuffle the financial stability of many of them.
Rehabilitation of the water regime of the lower Vojčianske side arm is our biggest restoration in the area of the Danube inland delta so far. That’s why it deserved a short video contribution.
We didn’t sit idle even this winter and continued to clear meadows and former pasture forests in the natural reserve Beckovské skalice from overgrown shrubs.
On Wednesday, November 29, a meeting of the project steering committee members took place. Thirteen participants attended the meeting, including seven members of the steering committee. Together, we visited the successful implementation of project activities in Čiližské močiare.
Competition for water is high in the Danubian Lowland, especially during spring and summer. During those seasons, the water from the melioration canals is used to irrigate the surrounding fields.
Those who knew the Danube and its branch system before the construction of the Gabčíkovo waterworks, knew what the so-called Danube gates are and where they are located. Of course, they were not real gates, but just a name for the connection of the main flow of the Danube and its branch systems.
One of the more than a hundred locations where we have restored grazing so far is the Dolné lazy protected area. It is located at the southeastern foothills of Považský Inovec above the small village of Závada. It consists of famous orchid meadows with a lot of junipers, which gradually disappeared in the shade of…
In the second workshop on cleaning the Čiližský stream and plans for the restoration of adjacent wetlands, we completed the removal of waste in the vicinity of the former landfill at Veľký Meder. After opening the natural mouth of the Čiližský stream and restoring the flow to the stream, we prevent the movement of waste downstream
The dikes in the basins of our rivers are important bio-corridors. They often serve as eco-stabilising features and centres of biodiversity in the surrounding, agriculturally intensive landscape.