Educational films

Lower Austrian biodiversity ambassador Rudi Schmid is a farmer and botanist. He shows how he creates and maintains high-quality fallow fields on his farmland. He tells details about the plant species that have become rare on such areas (you can enable English subtitles).

Styrian biodiversity ambassador Johanna Marchner-Pichler shows how she creates an ecologically valuable forest edge on her land, why such edges are so important today and what challenges our forests are facing today (you can enable English subtitles).

Salzburg biodiversity ambassador Ernst Moßhammer gives an insight into the impressive butterfly breeding programme on his farm, explains why he does all this together with his wife and the major challenges facing the development of eggs, pupae, caterpillars and butterflies today (you can enable English subtitles).

Arable farmer and Farming for Nature nominee Hans Gnauer shows us around his farm in this film. He cultivates his arable land using the ‘no till system’, which means that the soil is ploughed as little as possible so that the soil structure and soil organisms remain undisturbed. Hans Gnauer cultivates catch crops between the main crops so that the soil is covered with green plants as much of the time as possible. On the one hand, this prevents valuable soil from being eroded by wind and water without protection and, at the same time, the green plants store CO2 in the soil. This benefits the climate and the farmer himself, as CO2 and therefore carbon is a valuable fertiliser for arable crops. Hans Gnauer therefore only needs to add a small amount of fertiliser from outside. He has already succeeded in growing climate-positive wheat, which means that the cultivation of wheat stores more CO2 in the soil than is emitted during cultivation and harvesting (you can enable English subtitles).