Grazing is amazing! We now have it in print as well.
We have finally managed to accomplish something we had been planning for a long time: to publish a brochure about the importance of grazing in the landscape—for pollinators, flowers, insects, and birds—for biodiversity as a whole.
“The landscape around us has, since time immemorial, been closely connected with grazing. Many of us imagine the landscape of the distant past as a continuous forest cover, only occasionally interrupted by a river or a marsh, and later perhaps by small human settlements. But this is not entirely the case. In ancient times, during the era of hunters and gatherers, even before the agricultural revolution, herds of several hundred to thousands of animals roamed the land—aurochs, bison, wild horses, and donkeys. As they moved across the landscape, these animals grazed both on open plains and within forest stands. For them, the boundary between meadow and forest did not exist. Beneath their hooves, fallen branches cracked, clods of soil were kicked up, and in their mouths disappeared not only grass, but also all the leaves of trees and shrubs within their reach.”
If you are interested in the new brochure, feel free to visit us at our office in Bratislava or write to us, and we will send you a PDF version that you can print.
The brochure on the importance of grazing was graphically designed and printed as part of the #LIFE_Subpannonic project.
Graphic design: Magda Schery
