At the beginning of February, we accepted a kind invitation from the Church Primary and Secondary School in Pilsen to give a lecture on restoration ecology to their third- and fourth-year students.
The fourth-year students attended a lecture on the ecological restoration of human-disturbed sites, which helped them review what they had learned the previous year and prepare for an excursion they will take as part of their studies.
For the third-year students, we prepared a program on the restoration of species-rich meadows using regional seed mixtures. After a short presentation about the various options and methods for restoring species-rich meadows, an interactive activity involving magnifying glasses and seed identification was performed. This activity is always very popular. Finally, the students tested their newly acquired knowledge in a short assignment in which they were asked to propose and, above all, justify which method they would use for restoring meadow vegetation in model examples. Here, too, the students did very well and proved that they had absorbed all the information.
Based on the positive feedback, we believe that the students enjoyed both sessions.
