Mountaineers, as nature lovers, preserve the mountains and make it easier to enjoy them. Croatian mountaineering club St. Michael from the city of Šibenik is one of the most active mountaineering associations on Dinara. We present them here as one of the stakeholders in the Dinara back to LIFE project.
‘Challenges in beekeeping’ was the first round table held as part of the Dinara back to LIFE project. At the Sinj meeting in October beekeepers stated climate change as the main problem in their business.
We have enriched our project website with a new interactive map of the project area. The new map contains areas and locations of project activities and research conducted so far, as well as some other content.
At last week’s award ceremony of the Yellow Frame awards for Sustainable Development, the Dinara back to LIFE project was awarded in the category of promoting sustainable agriculture. We are grateful to the organizers, Adria Media Zagreb and National Geographic Croatia, as well as to all our partners, associates, stakeholders and volunteers.
18 selected students participated in the Dinara back to LIFE camp. We bring a conversation with each of them individually – about the expectations and results of the camp and about their plans for the future.
Alen Čikada, from KAL, an association for the protection and restoration of karst ponds, gave a very interesting and informative lecture in Sinj in Biom’s organisation on the restoration of ponds.
At the Dinara back to LIFE camp, representatives of Croatian Forestry state company gave a lecture on their area of activity and explained the benefits of afforestation.
Marunska bunarina was a neglected pond, after it has been restored last weekend, it is again a source of water and a support for biodiversity.
Combination of management techniques for mosaic habitats are beneficial and have multiple positive effects for wildfire prevention, explains Tomislav Hudina, Dinara back to LIFE project manager.
Professors Kutnjak and Leto presented a scientific paper which established the regularity in the productivity of lawns at 500 meters above sea level. This is the first step in making a model of mapping of pastures at the slopes of Dinara, and a prerequisite for making a model for mapping the pastures in general.
In Ježević under the Dinara mountain, educational-volunteering camp was held with 18 students from various scientific and Croatian geographic areas who learned about habitat restoration and cleared 28 hectares of bushes.
The Dinara back to LIFE project team visited Velebit and the local examples of good practice in grassland management and use – the organizations that manage this area and the cattle breeders who are on the practical side of this idea.
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