Biodiversity Festival

Butterflies, and day-flying butterflies in particular, are ideal for observing changes in the natural and cultural landscape. The Viel-Falter Monitoring project combines butterfly sightings recorded by volunteers (citizen science) with professional scientific surveys. This allows us to harness the synergistic benefits of both approaches to collect high-quality, scientifically sound data. Become a researcher yourself at the Festival of Biodiversity!

The area surrounding the Nature Park Centre has been expanded to create a valuable habitat for amphibians and insects, with dry stone walls built and nesting sites for wild bees created. A so-called Benjes hedge made from reclaimed wood has also brought life to ‘our garden’. During the guided tour around the Nature Park House, these natural garden features are highlighted, providing habitats for grass frogs, dragonflies, wild bees and others – the diversity can be enjoyed to the full and actively observed.

When experts attempt to identify as many species as possible within 24 hours as part of Biodiversity Day, this provides extremely valuable data for the Ötztal Nature Park. Our mushroom expert will also bring his finds back to the Nature Park Centre to share his discoveries with you.

Biodiversity in fast motion – a hike through the Rotmoosferner glacier foreland. The ongoing glacial melt in the Alps is a well-documented phenomenon with far-reaching implications for future societies. For biologists, however, it also presents an opportunity to shed light on the fundamental mechanisms of ecosystems on our planet: How are barren areas colonised? Which organisms are the first to venture into the unknown? How does a food web develop? We will explore these and other questions in the glacier forefield of the Rotmoosferner. At lunchtime, there is the option of stopping for a bite to eat at the Schönwieshütte.