{"id":24385,"date":"2024-11-07T13:46:41","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T12:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rewe-group.com\/de\/?p=41444"},"modified":"2025-05-13T13:22:46","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T11:22:46","slug":"over-800-animal-species-recorded-on-renaturalised-green-spaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rewe-group.com\/en\/press-and-media\/newsroom\/stories\/over-800-animal-species-recorded-on-renaturalised-green-spaces\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 800 animal species recorded on renaturalised green spaces"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Exemplary: BILLA has created the highest quality flowering areas in terms of nature conservation over several hectares. This is the result of zoological monitoring carried out by the Karl-Franzens University of Graz, Institute of Zoology, on renaturalised green spaces at BILLA stores.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The zoological monitoring, led by Dr Gernot Kunz, examined a total of 20 renaturalised green spaces between 210 and 810 square metres at BILLA stores in Lower Austria as well as a lawn mower meadow in Styria that is still intensively managed with regular mowing. The monitoring revealed that up to 330 species occur on the renaturalised flowering areas. Only around 190 species were found on the intensively managed meadow.<\/p>\n

The study shows that properly managed and renaturalised green spaces at BILLA supermarkets are already important stepping stone biotopes and even core habitats for numerous endangered and endangered species, thereby helping to safeguard our biodiversity. With well over 1,000 species – some of which are highly endangered – including plants and fungi, the BILLA shops analysed make an important contribution to the conservation of local flora and fauna. A gradual expansion of these measures to green spaces at BILLA stores throughout Austria is underway,<\/q> says project manager Gernot Kunz<\/p>\n

In times of global species extinction, the nature-orientated design of previously intensively farmed areas is an obligation for us all. By renaturalising green spaces, BILLA is sending out a clear signal that regional extinction processes can also be reversible. Rare butterflies are a thank you for this,<\/q> says Dr Peter Huemer, Management Board of Bl\u00fchendes \u00d6sterreich and curator of the natural science collection of the Tyrolean Provincial Museums.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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