News - University of Tartu Landscape Biodiversity Group

September 14, 2025

In the international doctoral school, urban planning, biodiversity conservation, and social inclusion are interweaved

This week, the Landscape Biodiversity Workgroup, together with the Chair of Human Geography and Regional Planning at the University of…

September 12, 2025

Join us for the volunteer day!

Landscape Biodiversity Workgroup, together with Mäemõisa young farmers Sander Hiir and Marian Nummert, is welcoming helping hands on the Mäemõisa…

August 27, 2025

Aveliina Helm on BBC World News: Restoring wetlands helps strengthen national defense

Head of the Landscape Biodiversity Workgroup, Professor of Restoration Ecology Aveliina Helm, has in recent days contributed to several international…

August 27, 2025

At the Biosphere Science Day, Saaremaa’s biodiversity was explored

On Saturday, August 23, the first-ever Biosphere Science Day was held, initiated by TalTech’s Kuressaare College and the West Estonian…

August 13, 2025

Summer fieldwork by the Landscape Biodiversity Workgroup brings science into Estonian nature

This summer, the workgroup’s months are once again filled with fieldwork, taking researchers, students, and assistants to fields, meadows, and…

June 6, 2025

Undergraduate students from the Landscape Biodiversity Workgroup successfully defended their theses

Yesterday, 14 undergraduate students from the Department of Botany defended their bachelor's theses. Five of them were supervised by researchers…

June 2, 2025

The Young Nature Conservationist Badge was awarded to communications specialist Katariina Kuusaru

Katariina Kuusaru studies hedgehogs in urban environments and is leading a campaign to make Tartu a better habitat for hedgehogs.…

April 23, 2025

Maarjamõisa field will get more biodiverse with the participation of the Landscape Biodiversity Workgroup

Researchers from the University of Tartu and the City of Tartu are designing a Maarjamõisa field as a nature-rich green…

February 10, 2025

SERE2024 has been awarded the 2024 Conference Achievement of the Year Award in Estonia

The Estonian Convention Bureau’s Conference Deed of the Year 2024 award in Tartu was presented to the European Conference on Ecological Restoration (SERE2024).…

February 4, 2025

Aveliina Helm’s Portrait Film Maintains an Affirmative Note Despite a Tumultuous Title

This time, the portrait film competition will feature a film about Aveliina Helm, a professor of restoration ecology at the…

January 20, 2025

Vote for the best heritage meadow caretaker!

This year, the caretakers of Estonia’s heritage meadows, which are among our oldest ecosystems and home to half of Estonia’s…

December 16, 2024

Estonian macrolichens are more threatened than microlichens

With the participation of Polina Degtjarenko, Researcher of Restoration Ecology of the Landscape Biodiversity Workgroup, a comprehensive overview of the…

November 25, 2024

Oliver Kalda was awarded the best presentation award at the Doctoral Conference of the Department of Botany

At the department's doctoral student conference held every two years, Oliver Kalda, a junior researcher at the Landscape Biodiversity Workgroup,…

October 31, 2024

A hegde in the Postirõõmu field is supporting the biodiversity

A 130-metre hedge was planted in the field of the Mäemõisa in the municipality of Rakke to support biodiversity in…

October 23, 2024

One of the largest beetles in Estonia - the Hermit beetle - is under monitoring by the Landscape Biodiversity Workgroup

In the Estonian-Latvian joint project WoodmeadowLIFE, one of the activities is also the monitoring of biodiversity, environmental conditions and the…

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