March 30, 2023
THE FOURTH MONITORING VISIT
On Monday, 27th of March 2023, the external monitor Mitja Kaligarič, Ph.D. from NEEMO organization visited the LIFE AMPHICON project, this time in Kozjanski Park....
On Monday, 27th of March 2023, the external monitor Mitja Kaligarič, Ph.D. from NEEMO organization visited the LIFE AMPHICON project, this time in Kozjanski Park....
In the past two months we finished the establishment of ten planned ponds in Jovsi. As the temperatures rise, they could soon host the first spawning amphibians. Further work on the project site was focused on improvement of terrestrial habitats....
During the visit, the Head of the Nature Conservation Division, Katarina Groznik Zeiler, PhD stressed the importance of the LIFE AMPHICON project in the conservation of amphibians and their habitats and visited some of the newly established water habitats in the area....
Between February 28 and March 1, 2023, a two-day professional field visit of Salzburg and its surroundings took place. The purpose was to network and share experiences on amphibian conservation and best practices for implementing measures for amphibians on roads....
In recent days, we have completed the excavation of the last of the 50 amphibian ponds planned in Ljubljansko barje. They are now waiting for amphibians to come out of hibernation and head to their breeding grounds. ...
Katja Poboljšaj from the Centre for Cartography of Fauna and Flora presented the project LIFE AMPHICON – Amphibian Conservation and Habitat Restoration at the 5th Biological Evening organised by the University of Primorska, Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Information Technologies (UP FAMNIT)....
The association will renaturalize about 30 ponds to create aquatic habitats for the fire-bellied toad and other amphibians in the region. Although there is plenty of water in the Felchowsee area, suitable spawning habitats for amphibians - free of fish, sunny and sometimes drying out...
These days amphibians have started to emerge after the winter. In the first warm rainy evenings, we expect the start of amphibian migrations to their breeding sites. During the breeding season the safety of amphibians highly depends on the work of volunteers on the problematic...
On Saturday, 11.02.2023, a conference on "Meadow bird-friendly management, insect-friendly management & possibilities for the utilization of agriculturally unusable cuttings" took place in Mülheim an der Ruhr organized by LIFE Wiesenvögel NRW ....
In January 2023, the construction of permanent measures to reduce amphibian mortality on roads in Ljubljansko barje (project section Bistra) began....