Help revive Nature !

We are convinced that nature conservation is not a job or a service performed by trained professionals but rather a way of life. We affect nature on every step of our daily lives in one way or the other, but we rarely realize the short, yet alone long term impacts of our actions. We can support nature enormously by simply choosing to go about our daily routines with nature in mind.

As an NGO our activities highly depend on the support of people that care about nature. You can help us by volunteering, donations, spreading the word,...

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We appreciate the complexity of reviving the nature, therefore we focus our nature conservation efforts in three main pillars that will together lead us to the final goal - living in harmony:

• We provide the essential scientific basis for renaturation measures through ichthyological and aquatic ecosystems research.
• With education and awareness raising of the general public and professionals we plant the seeds of change in people's perception of nature not as a resource to be spent, but as a gift to be valued. Thus, we try to align the needs of both, people and nature.
• By implementing renaturation measures we revive and conserve the nature and life which is the last step in the process of reviving nature.

Services description

Current projects

We are currently running 3 projects and applying for additional 3.

Fish monitoring in the Bobovek pond

We were successful in the competition to perform fish monitoring of the Bobovek pond near Kranj. We will use the standardized method of gill-netting and electrofishing to assess the status of the fish community in the pond and set the reference for future monitoring. Volunteers are wormly invited to join us.

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Behavioral study: marble vs. rainbow trout

An international team of scientists in association with the Fishing Club Idrija will compare farm raised marble and rainbow trout behavior in the Idrijca River using telemetry. The project is voluntary, so we are raising funds to cover at least travel and accomodation as well as some essential equipment through the Experiment crowdfunding platform. You can support us by donating at the following link.

Behavioral study

NAture Insurance: Assessment and Demonstration

We successfully applied to the largest European call for research proposals - Horizon 2020 with the NAIAD project in which we cooperate with 22 project partners from 10 EU countries. The project will develop the methodology and demonstrate the effectiveness of nature based solutions for water related challenges. We will present the methods and their effectiveness to the general and professional public in Slovenia on the Glinščica case study.

NAIAD

Completed projects

We successfully completed our first project in April 2017, but more will follow soon.

Exotic species removal - Tivoli

We performed the first electrofishing of exotic species in the Tivoli pond in Ljubljana in the first week of April in cooperation with Municipality of Ljubljana, Institute for Nature Conservation and Fishing Club Barje.

Electrofishing Tivoli