WeideWert

Activities and purpose

The project

The project aims to establish guided grazing with shepherds as a nature-based measure to promote biodiversity, pasture quality, and landscape management in South Tyrol and Tyrol. It identifies supporting and hindering factors, collects scientific data on effectiveness, and develops an innovative funding model that accounts for the additional workload of shepherds. In so-called Living Labs—selected pastures with guided grazing—vegetation, zoological, and labor time surveys are conducted. Based on cross-border cooperation and best practices in contractual nature conservation, a participatory implementation and funding model is developed to anchor guided grazing at political, social, and administrative levels. Training sessions raise awareness of this sustainable land use, and cross-border collaboration enables data and best practice exchange.