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NEWS ARCHIVES:

2013
  • The conference in Kazimierz Dolny
  • The Final Report has been submitted
  • The report from our project called Lyman's Report appeared! (Action D7)
  • We extend the Project duration
  • We prepared Habitat Action Plan for kserothermic grasslands In Poland (Action A3)
  • Conservation plan for Słoneczne Wzgórza reserve has been accepted! (Action A2)
  • The summation of our project during the conference in Cedynia (Action D3)
  • We published short movie about grassland conservation! (Action D4)
  • Shrub removal in the "Żurawce" site (Action C4)
  • We gave away educational boards (Action D6)
  • We planted a new batch of Echium russicum (Action C5)
  • Dry grassland conference in Criewen
  • An international conference "Concepts for modern management of xeric grasslands between nature conservation and agriculture"
  • New educational boards and tourist infrastructure (Action C7)
  • Exchange of experience on grassland conservation (Action D8)
  • Fascination of Plants Day in Zamość (Action D3)
  • Grazing season in Odra Valley has started (Action C6)
  • We have published photographic album on xerothermic grasslands (Action D2)
  • 10th European Dry Grassland Meeting is coming! (Action D3)
  • Music from the grasslands! (Action D1)
  • The four xerotermic grasslands were taken under protection (Action A2)
  • The grasslands fencing in 2013 has started (Action C8 and C6)
  • Sets of educational boarders were given to Odra river valley schools (Action C7)
  • The plot of land bought in Zatoń Dolna is marked out (Action B1)


  • 2012
  • Another short movies about xerothermic grassland protection (Action D4)
  • The second set of meetings concerning protection plans of Natura 2000 sites in Lubelszczyzna (Action A2)
  • New education boards in Lubycza Królewska community (Lublin voivodship) (Action C7)
  • Clear-cuts in Lubelszczyzna voivodship (action C1)
  • Logging trees and shrubs in Odra and Warta Valley 2012-2013 has started (Action C1)
  • The first set of meetings concerning Protection Plans for Natura 2000 sites in Lubelszczyzna (Action A2)
  • The nature reserve "Sunny Hills" was created! (Action A2)
  • Lessons for youth from Lubycz Królewska (Action D3)
  • Meeting concerning cooperation between Poland and Germany in biodiversity conservation
  • Another part of seedlings of Echium russicum was planted (Action C5)
  • Grassland restoration in the vicinity of Zatoń Dolna (Action C4)
  • We have purchased the parcel near Zatoń Dolna in Raduń sub-area (Action B1)
  • Restoration of grasslands in the Kąty site (Action C4)
  • The extermination of the Sosnowsky's Hogweed (Action C2)
  • The fencing in 2012 has been finished (Action C8 and C6)
  • The experiment on the Stawska Góra site (Action C4)
  • Workshop on grassland conservation for the kids (Action D3)
  • Posters promoting grassland conservation (Action D1)
  • Grassland frames (Action D3)
  • The 9th meeting of the European Dry Grassland Group (Action D8)
  • We have finished tree and shrub removal on grasslands (Action C1)
  • Echium russicum in the spring of 2012 (Action C5)
  • We have finished the tree and scrub cutting in Stawska Góra and Żurawce sites (Action C1)
  • Another level of restoration of xerothermic grasslands is conducted (Action C4)
  • We have set up information tables in the Bug River valley (Action D6)
  • We have signed another agreements concerning pasturage on grasslands (Action C8)
  • Twenty years of LIFE!
  • Discussion on the Echium russicum protection (Action C5)


  • 2011
  • Active protection of the Echium russicum (Action C5)
  • We have purchased the parcel in Kąty site! (Action B1)
  • Autumn clearings on the grasslands (Action C1)
  • Rubbish removal from Nawodna Has started (Action C3)
  • Article describing our works hop in "Żurawce" Nature 2000 site Has been Publisher
  • We have planted another seedlings of Echium russicum (Action C5)
  • Workshop in Żurawce site (Action D3)
  • We have started another level of restoration of xerothermic grasslands in Owczary area (Action C4)
  • We have finished the first part of xerothermic grassland restoration (Action C4)
  • Echium russicum in 2011 (Action C5)
  • New issue of European Dry Grassland Group bulletin
  • We came to an agreement on reserve "Sunny Hills" near Raduń (Odra region) (Action C5)
  • The article about our LIFE + project was published in the Steppe Bulletin
  • We have started xerothermic grassland restoration! (Action C4)
  • Meeting of the European Dry Grassland Group - Ukraine 2011 (Action D8)
  • Conference in Lublin: "Diversity of xerothermic grasslands in Poland"
  • Xerothermic workshop for young people from Mieszkowice and Moryń (Action D3)
  • Removal of invasive shrub - Mahonia aquifolium - from the grassland in Błeszyn, Dolna Odra river valley (Action C4)
  • Preparing for the restoration of xerothermic grasslands (Action C4)
  • Grazing season has just started!(Action C6)
  • Removing of the Sosnowski's Hogweed in the vicinity of Żurawce area (Lublin voivodship) (Action C2)
  • Cows are back in the Dobużek area grasslands! (Action C8)
  • We removed the rubbish in the Niedzieliska area (Action C3)
  • Echium russicum has survived the winter! (Action C5)
  • The tearing out of the bushes and the raking out of the litter in the Machnowska Góra reserve (Action C4)
  • The award granted to the Naturalists' Club and the Regional Directorate for Environmental Protection in Lublin
  • 8th meeting of the European Dry Grassland Group in Ukraine (Action D8)
  • Raking the fled on xerothermic grasslands (Action C5)
  • The Ukrainian steppes in danger!


  • 2010
  • Chain saws started to work! (Action C1)
  • Horses enjoy Calamagrostis epigaeios but with ought mutuality (Action C8)
  • A meeting was held with the landowners of the Dobuzek site (Action C6)
  • Shelters for animals on the grasslands were placed (Action C6)
  • The volunteers gave us a hand! (Action C6)
  • We have planted first Echium rubrum seedlings! (Action C5)
  • Pasturage season has not ended so far! (Action C6)
  • The article about our project was published in quarterly magazine OIKOS
  • The cultivation of plants on xerothetmic grasslands Zachodniowołyńska Dolina Bugu was started (Action C5)
  • English version of the information folder is now available
  • From sheep to ball of wool
  • In Chojeńska Newspaper the article about our project was published
  • A meeting was held with the landowners of the Niedzieliska site (Action A1)
  • Two meetings were held with landowners of the Zachodniowołyńska Dolina Bugu area (Action A1)
  • Grasslands on the screen (Action D4)
  • The first contract with a private landowner for grassland grazing along the Oder River has been signed (Action C8)
  • The grasslands designated for mobile pasturage have been fenced! (Action C6)
  • A meeting was held with landowners of the Żurawce area (Action A1)
  • The 7th meeting of the European Dry Grassland Group (EDGG) in Slovakia (Action D8)
  • More grasslands have been grazed! (Action C6)
  • A meeting was held with the Mayor of the Szczebrzeszyn Township about the Niedzieliska area. (Action A1)
  • The largest stand of lady orchid Orchis purpurea in the Lublin region has been destroyed!
  • Stipa borysthenica has bloomed!
  • A meeting to discuss strengthening the population of Echium russicum (Action C5)
  • An article about our project appeared in Tygodnik Zamojski
  • The scope of activities in the Mieszkowice Forestry Division has been determined! (Action A1)
  • We began the mobile pasturage by sheep on the grasslands! (Action C6)
  • Report of the meeting in Lublin on April 7, 2010 (Action A1)
  • The seminar on "Education and building support for nature conservation of the Natura 2000 sites - experiences to date and perspectives" took place
  • The project brochure is available! (Action D1)
  • The first steps (Action A1)



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