
Rietli habitat mosaic
In spring 2015, basic school pupils of Scuola Vivante discover frog spawn on one of their walks in the Rietli. The Rietli, a small, 3.5 hectare piece of meadowland adjacent to a forest, south of Buchs SG (CH).
The area is often wet – the name Rietli refers to the boggy reed – to the chagrin of the farmer who uses the grass for fodder, to the delight of the crowd of schoolchildren who watch the colourful hustle and bustle of the tadpoles on the wet meadow.
The children are outraged by the constant attempts to drain this originally deep-peat reedbed through selective filling. Tadpoles are rescued in buckets and relocated
Out of this indignation, the „Rietli Buchs rehabilitation project“ was born, which restored the entire area to its original state in cooperation with experts, educators, pupils and parents. A habitat mosaic is created.
Key data
Project start
December 2018
Project completion
Planned completion winter 22/23
Project management
Jürg Mäder
Project planning
Renat GmbH, Rudolf Staub
Initiators
trailblazing GmbH / Scuola Vivante
Sponsorship
Swiss Foundation for Bird Sanctuaries
Special
Cooperation with schoolchildren initiated and implemented.
Total costs
CHF 650,000 Financed by the public sector, nature conservation foundations and Scuola Vivante’s own contribution.
Website
Storytelling
Rietli Buchs on the blog
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Werdenberg Yearbook
The history of the Rietli upgrading project in the Werdenberg Yearbook
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Rietli Buchs – a habitat mosaic
Since autumn 2018, we have been committed to the renaturation of a piece of land in the Swiss town of Buchs SG: the Rietli. The newly revised website provides an overview. We hope you enjoy browsing through it.