Alpine biodiversity under the mark of increased forestation
The Foundation is running a pilot project with the aim of producing an inventory of the animal and plant species present in the Alpine open country biotope. These agricultural landscape zones have been cultivated by the hand of man for thousands of years, but could be put at risk by the increasing failure to cultivate combined with growth in areas of forestation, both caused by de-population. The current controversial discussions for and against an Alpine (secondary) wilderness seem to lack this type of biodiversity-related line of argument.