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The Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences and Czech Union for Nature Conservation in Vla\u0161im save Minuartia smejkalii<\/h2>\n![\"Blooming](\"https:\/\/www.jednapriroda.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Na-nekterych-mistech-uz-rozkveta-i-endemicka-kuricka-hadcova-300x200.jpg\")
Blooming endemic Minuartia smejkalii. Photo: www.kuricka.cz<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n
From 2016 to the end of 2020, the project LIFE for Minuartia<\/a> aims to save the rare species of Minuartia smejkalii<\/em> and to increase its population by 40%. This small, white-flowering plant is a Czech endemic and occurs in only two areas in our country, in the \u017delivka Site of Community importance and in Hadce u Hrn\u010d\u00ed\u0159 Site of Community importance.<\/p>\nThe total cost of the project is almost EUR 736,000, of which the LIFE Programme provided approximately EUR 550,000. The Botanical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences in cooperation with the Czech Union for Nature Conservation in Vla\u0161im were thus able to ensure activities to mitigate the negative effects on the Minuartia smejkalii<\/em> population, such as spreading of self-seeded trees, development of competitively strong grasses or moss layer, illegal dumps, illegal plant collection, vandalism and inappropriate forest management.<\/p>\nThe habitats were revitalized through mowing, sheep grazing or manual plucking of plants. A gene pool bank was established (this is the so-called ex-situ protection, i.e. outside the territory of natural occurrence of the species), populations in nature were strengthened directly. There was also reintroduction and also local people got involved in the conservation of the species through the newly created programme Rescue Cultivation in Private Gardens.<\/p>\n
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BELECO supports biodiversity in abandoned military areas
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Grazing goats and wild horses. Photo: www.beleco.cz\/militarylife<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n
Blooming endemic Minuartia smejkalii. Photo: www.kuricka.cz<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n From 2016 to the end of 2020, the project LIFE for Minuartia<\/a> aims to save the rare species of Minuartia smejkalii<\/em> and to increase its population by 40%. This small, white-flowering plant is a Czech endemic and occurs in only two areas in our country, in the \u017delivka Site of Community importance and in Hadce u Hrn\u010d\u00ed\u0159 Site of Community importance.<\/p>\n The total cost of the project is almost EUR 736,000, of which the LIFE Programme provided approximately EUR 550,000. The Botanical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences in cooperation with the Czech Union for Nature Conservation in Vla\u0161im were thus able to ensure activities to mitigate the negative effects on the Minuartia smejkalii<\/em> population, such as spreading of self-seeded trees, development of competitively strong grasses or moss layer, illegal dumps, illegal plant collection, vandalism and inappropriate forest management.<\/p>\n The habitats were revitalized through mowing, sheep grazing or manual plucking of plants. A gene pool bank was established (this is the so-called ex-situ protection, i.e. outside the territory of natural occurrence of the species), populations in nature were strengthened directly. There was also reintroduction and also local people got involved in the conservation of the species through the newly created programme Rescue Cultivation in Private Gardens.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Grazing goats and wild horses. Photo: www.beleco.cz\/militarylife<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\nBELECO supports biodiversity in abandoned military areas
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