Welcome to SALVERE

Regionally farming practices have led to a variety of agricultural habitats that host a large number of plant and animal species. The biodiversity of farmland, however, has rapidly declined across Europe in the last few decades. Vast territories of unaltered semi-natural regions, such as meadows and pastures, containing protected animals and plants, are the resources for agri-environmental protection initiatives.

The project SALVERE wants to promote High Nature Value Farmland (HNVF) with its biodiversity as a valuable resource to support sustainable rural development in Central Europe. The project will contribute to protect biodiversity present in seminatural-grassland. The use of native seed studied and transferred in the project, will prevent genetic pollution of local populations originating from the use of conventional seed mixtures containing alien species and varieties. It is important to create technical conditions for an increase of species-rich areas in intensive agricultural or urbanized regions and to add value to extensive semi-natural grassland.