Activity calendar
Additional three donkeys join our project flock
Our project flock is growing – three new donkeys will improve grazing efforts, and we’ve had a new local cattle-herder join the project.
12. May 2022.
Our project flock is growing – three new donkeys will improve grazing efforts, and we’ve had a new local cattle-herder join the project.
Over the course of 7 months participants of the educational-volunteer camp as well as restoration workers have manually removed woody vegetation and improved 47,6 ha of Ježević suhopolje grassland.
Next Monday in Sinj we are organizing an international panel discussion ‘European Green Deal – How Croatia Can Strike It?’. Attend it or watch it online!
A roundtable was recently held in Vrlika with beekeepers from the Dinara area, who emphasized that the increasing climatic extremes have a strong negative impact on beekeeping.
Dry stone wall construction is an ancient method developed for practical and economic reasons, but it is also a sustainable building practice. Stone walls are made from natural locally-sourced material – stone, it can be deconstructed as easily as it can be rebuilt, and it enriches the local area visually. Useful, sustainable, and beautiful tradition. Therefore, we are happy to introduce the 4 Grada Dragodid association which has been focused on dry stone wall reconstruction for the past 15 years.
At the beginning of this year, local livestock breeders from the Dinara area have started with the procurement of donkeys and horses in order to improve the grazing pressure and thus contribute to the biodiversity of Mount Dinara’s grasslands. We talked to livestock breeders and photographed new animals from our “service flock”.
The successful clearing-up activity of Vučipolje – Privija trail was completed and the restoration of the stone wall on Vrdovo has started, all with the help of 50-odd volunteers.
The number of articles about the project is increasing and the vast majority of them is affirmative – the analysis of media clipping showed.
Contracts have been signed with cattle breeders from the Dinara area who will increase and expand their herds and thus help in the restoration and maintenance of grasslands.
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.