In this special episode of "Agricultural Science – Knowledge in Brief," we celebrate 30 years of vegetation management at the HBLFA Raumberg-Gumpenstein. With three distinguished guests, we look back at key innovations in ecologically valuable revegetation – and forward to the upcoming challenges of recultivation and renaturation.

Why regional wildflower mixes are the future, how biodiversity becomes the life insurance of our cultural landscapes, and what role technical methods play in nature conservation – you can hear all this in this exciting podcast special by Dr. Andreas Steinwidder

• Dr. Bernhard Krautzer (specialist for site-adapted greening, grassland management and wild plant propagation and head of the Institute for Plant Production and Cultural Landscape Research at the HBLFA Raumberg-Gumpenstein),
• DI Christian Tamegger (Head of the "New Green" division of Kärntner Saatbau) and
• Dr. Christian Uhlig (geoecologist and biodiversity researcher with many years of experience in Norway).

It's worth a listen!

Here is the video "Securing and (re)vitalizing the landscape" with some background information

Further information

Austrian Standards Institute (2014): ÖNORM L 1113 – Greening with wild plant seeds. Vienna: Austrian Standards Institute

Austrian Standards Institute (2014): ONR 121113 – Greening with wild plant seeds – Habitat types and seed mixtures. Vienna: Austrian Standards Institute

Austrian Standards International (2019): ÖNORM L 1114 – Requirements for ecologically oriented revegetation after technical interventions in high alpine regions. Vienna: Austrian Standards International

KIRMER, A., KRAUTZER, B., SCOTTON, M., & TISCHEW, S. (2012):
Practical handbook on seed collection and restoration of species-rich grassland. Anhalt University of Applied Sciences (Bernburg) & HBLFA Raumberg-Gumpenstein, 80 pp.

KRAUTZER, B., GRAISS, W., BLASCHKA, A. (2023):
Testing guidelines for the certification and distribution of regional wild grasses and wild herbs according to the “Gumpensteiner Certificate of Origin” (G-Zert). www.gzert.at

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