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January 22, 2021

Tsipe's and Virve Sõber's articles and radio visit about the increase in the pesticide use

Tsipe wrote with Virve Sõber a two-part article about the use of pesticides in Sirp. According to a recent report,…

January 21, 2021

Aveliina wrote about the need of longer focus in Postimees

Aveliina wrote in Postimees about what Estonia's focus could be for decades. Are we moving towards a peaceful world where…

January 12, 2021

Aveliina is one of Sirp's 2020 laureates

Culture paper Sirp thanks its best authors-collaborators every year with the title of laureate. One of the winners of 2020…

January 11, 2021

The Estonian Chamber of Environmental Associations recognized Rohemeeter

Every year, the Estonian Chamber of Environmental Associations (EKO) chooses an environmental act and an environmental ax. The decision of…

January 8, 2021

Sabrina is starting a new position in Germany

After almost four years, sadly, Sabrina’s time in our Landscape Biodiversity group comes to an end. From beginning of 2021,…

January 7, 2021

Call for postdoctoral researchers

Our workgroup is open to host new postdoctoral researchers, who are interested to work on landscape-scale restoration, conservation, spatial planning,…

January 6, 2021

Big LIFE IP project "ForEst&FarmLand" has started

Our workgroup is participating in a large and long-term LIFE IP project "ForEst&FarmLand", which aims to protect and restore traditional…

December 21, 2020

The final report of the project "Conservation of natural biodiversity in agricultural land" is completed

The project "Conservation of natural biodiversity in agricultural land" led by our work group ended this autumn and now the…

December 18, 2020

Marianne and Iris participated in the virtual conference of the British Ecological Society

The annual conference of the British Ecological Society took place from 14. to 18. December December, which took place virtually…

December 18, 2020

Aveliina and Tsipe put together a report on biodiversity-friendly management techniques for roadsides

Aveliina and Tsipe together with Sulev Nurme, Virve Sõber and Mart Meriste, prepared a report on the maintenance of mowed…

November 17, 2020

We held an autumn seminar together with the macroecology work group

On 11 November we held a joint autumn seminar in Lodjakoda with macroecology work group, this time on the topic…

November 17, 2020

Iris talked about her thesis at the conference of doctoral students

On November 6, the conference of doctoral students of the Department of Botany of the University of Tartu was held,…

November 10, 2020

Aveliina and Elisabeth participated in the ELME project final seminar

On October 29, 2020, a public seminar on ELME project , i.e. the results of the national assessment and mapping…

October 13, 2020

Aveliina talked about everyone's nature protection at the Tedx Tallinn event

On September 26, Tedx Tallinn: Käänaku taga event took place where representatives of different fields spoke about topics important to…

September 23, 2020

An article with cowslip campaign data has been published

In 2019, in cooperation with the Estonian Fund for Nature, we started the citizen science campaign “Estonia is looking for…

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