We opened another restored side arm
Today we opened another restored side arm within the Danube inland delta. We have thus released water into a 4.4 km long section of the river branch and into the wetlands and depressions that this strem feeds.
We restored grazing under the second largest peak of White Carpathians
As part of the LIFE Endemic Panalp project, we are successfully continuing the restoration of flowering meadows and traditional pastures. Most recently, thanks to the project, after many decades, farm animals are grazing again in the saddle below Chmeľová, which is the second highest peak of the White Carpathians. It is interesting that a very…
Annual activity report for 2023
This year, we successfully completed the Annual activity report for the year 2023. Our ambition in creating it is to provide a comprehensive overview to our supporters, benefactors, and the general public about our activities throughout the year 2023.
We organized a volunteer event for butterflies
Last week, together with the Záhorie Protected Landscape Area Administration, we organized a team-building event for employees of Kaufland Slovakia. We took them to the Kyseľová Nature Monument in Kopanice. This site is part of the project because it is home to rare butterflies such as the Clouded Apollo, the Sloe Hairstreak, and the Large Copper.
We hosted a restoration camp in Smolenice
During the last week of August, we hosted an international youth camp at Molpír near Smolenice village in Small Carpathians. It was organized by the association Strom života (Tree of Life) and almost 30 young people from Slovakia, Finland, the Netherlands and Greece came to it. With our joint efforts, we managed to clean more…
Thanks for the inspiring meeting of LIFE WILDisland project partners in Tulcea (Romania)
At the beginning of September we actively participated in the meeting of project partners from the Danubeparks network of protected areas in Tulcea, Romania. In addition to updates, progress and new challenges in the ongoing LIFE WILDisland project across the whole project consortium, we had the opportunity to visit valuable places in the Danube Delta and selected project sites near Isaccea, where floodplain revitalisation is underway.
We hosted a restoration camp in Smolenice.
During the last week of August we hosted an international youth camp on the Molpír hill near Smolenice. It was organized by the Tree of Life association and nearly 30 young people from Slovakia, Finland, the Netherlands and Greece came to participate. Together we managed to clear more than a kilometre of corridor, where we…
We continue to renew pasture in the nature reserve Beckovské skalice.
Two flocks of sheep and goats are roaming the meadows and hills of the Beckovské skalice nature reserve throughout the season. They extensively graze the meadow habitats, which our colleagues take turns replotting, so that they mosaically graze some of the vegetation and leave some of it.
We inaugurated the revitalised end of the Čiližský stream
On Friday 26.7.2024 we completed the revitalization of the lower part of the Čiližský stream with the final dig.
It was done following a number of measures we have taken to gradually improve the flow of this important 35 km long stream in the Danube region.
The water has partially returned to the side arm of Kráľovská lúka
On July 15, 2024, at Kráľovská lúka, we started the test filling of the renewed side arm in the section from the inlet of the Baka branch system to the first culvert.