Help us! Submit your favourite grassland photograph to the SUPER-G Photo Competition

Did you photograph any permanent grasslands in Europe this year (or, for that matter, in previous years)?

Whether flowers, butterflies or your pony, whether haymaking or grazing cows, whether amazing landscapes seen on holidays or your favourite evening walk, or even threats to permanent grasslands,  such as summer drought or abandonment – you can submit them all to the SUPER-G photo competition!

This is you chance to win a journey to beautiful Slovenia – and at the same time, help scientists to learn more about the cultural values of European grasslands.

SUPER-G is a EU-funded Horizon 2020 project, bringing together researchers from 14 coutries. Over the course of five years, we are working together with stakeholders – farmers, advisers, policy-makers, and the general public – to find ways to maintain European permanent grasslands and manage them in increasingly sustainable ways.

So, if you have time over the holidays, why not help us and give your favourite grassland images a greater audience?

GrassCOPS database

Grass cobs: pelletized grass for feeding (photograph above)

GrassCOPS: new online data base for finding research on grassland management from the ‘grey literature’ (photograph below):

Heike Paesel and her student helpers have done a tremendous work entering over 20 years of German grassland research as presented on the annual AGGF meetings into a data base that does not only give an (English) summary, but allows you to search for contributions based on target and response variables as well.

More details can be found here (in German, with English abstract).

And if you should be interested of contributing other ‘grey literature’, e.g. conference abstracts on grassland-management-related topics, contact us!