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Structured winegrowing landscape

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© Arnaud Barras

Revitalized former vineyard in Salgesch

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© Arnaud Barras

Flower meadow and walnut tree in a former vineyard in Vétroz

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© Franz Steffen

Hedge planting in the Chamoson vineyards

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© Laura Bosco

Some vines replaced by shrubs and a fruit tree

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© Julien Mazenauer

Structured winegrowing landscape in Salgesch

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© Flurin Leugger

Winegrowing is often a very monotonous form of cultivation

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© Dennis Lorenz
Cirl Bunting
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© Ralph Martin
Woodlark
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Structured winegrowing landscape

Revitalized former vineyard in Salgesch

Flower meadow and walnut tree in a former vineyard in Vétroz

Hedge planting in the Chamoson vineyards

Some vines replaced by shrubs and a fruit tree

Structured winegrowing landscape in Salgesch

Winegrowing is often a very monotonous form of cultivation

Cirl Bunting
Woodlark
Projects
Valais vineyards and avifauna

Promoting biodiversity in Valais vines

The aim of this project is to enhance Valais vineyards in a way that will benefit endangered bird species, both nesting birds and migratory birds that are stopping over or wintering birds. The Swiss Ornithological Institute supports winegrowing techniques that are compatible with nature and that create new habitats within vineyards in order to promote biodiversity.

Domain Conservation
Unit Agricultural Habitats
Topic Habitat Promotion
Habitat semi-open farmland
Project start 2000
Project status ongoing
Project management Arnaud Barras
Project region Valais

Details

Project partner(s)

Financial support

  • Stiftung Accentus
  • Woller und Eileen Leder-Stiftung für den Tierschutz
  • Styner-Stiftung
  • Stiftung Yvonne Jacob
  • Canton du Valais, Service des forêts, de la nature et du paysage
  • Fonds suisse pour le paysage

Publications

Employees

Avatar Arnaud Barras
Employee of the regional Office Valais
Arnaud Barras
+41 27 456 88 56
arnaud.barras@vogelwarte.ch
Avatar Alain Jacot
Coordinator regional Office Valais
Alain Jacot
+41 79 77 44 262
alain.jacot@vogelwarte.ch

Species concerned

Common Linnet
Common Redstart
Woodlark
Eurasian Wryneck
Common Hoopoe
Cirl Bunting
Rock Bunting
Other resources
Avinews
Mehr Biodiversität und weniger Pestizide im Rebbau (in German)
Avinews
Grüne Rebberge für mehr Vögel (in German)
Media release
A la santé de l'alouette lulu (in French)
vogelwarte.ch/news/a-la-sante-de-lalouette-lulu
Avinews
Plus de biodiversité et moins de pesticides (in French)
vogelwarte.ch/news/plus-de-biodiversite-et-moins-de-pesticides
Atlas Focus
The rich birdlife of vineyards
vogelwarte.ch/atlas/the-rich-birdlife-of-vineyards
external link
Protection du vignoble respectueuse des oiseaux (in French)
agroscope.admin.ch
Video
Biodiversität im Rebberg fördern (in German)
agrinatur.ch
Audio
Parcelles de vigne à Vétroz (in French)
vogelwarte.ch/parcelles-de-vigne-a-vetroz
Agricultural habitats link
Unit

Agricultural habitats

We promote wildlife-friendly agriculture with more high-quality and better-connected habitats, fewer artificial fertilisers and fewer pesticides.

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Additional projects

Resource-conserving measures in arable farming to promote biodiversity
Producing food in a biodiversity-friendly and resource-saving way
Promotion of biodiversity in intensive fruit cultivation in the Swiss Rhone valley
Measures to bring life to orchards
Ecological networks in the Chablais valaisan region
Biodiversity measures in the agricultural plain along the Rhone
Species promotion – Eurasian Skylark
Protection and promotion for the “minstrel of the air”
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