TV magazine “Land and People”, on Saturday, February 10, 2024 at 4:30 p.m. on ORF 2
St. Pölten (OTS) – In Lower Austria, especially in the Waldviertel, there are still moor and swamp landscapes that are thousands of years old and are now being protected, preserved and renatured – with the first visible successes. Moorland landscapes are not only fascinating habitats for plants and animals. They are soil archives and active climate protectors, because moors can store around 10 times as much CO2 as forests. 90 percent of Austria’s natural moor areas have already disappeared. After they were drained for peat mining or agricultural use until the 1980s, the aim now is to restore the water balance of the moors in the Waldviertel, for example. Because dry moors release CO2 instead of storing it. In the nature reserves in the Heidenreichstein raised moor and in the Schrems Nature Park, drainage ditches are buried and dam walls are driven deep into the peat in order to strengthen the sensitive ecosystem again. The “Land and People” team is taking part in the winter work.
Further topics from “Land and People” on February 10th:
*Scarecrow as a landmark
Leutschacher Erich Silberschneider shows how the landmarks of southern Styria, the Klapotetze, are built in winter. The rattling of these wooden wind turbines is said to deter birds from stealing grapes from the vines.
*Climate-fit cookbook
The students from HBLA Sitzenberg present chocolate cake with white beans and even more imaginative dishes made from legumes. They test recipes for AGES, the Austrian Agency for Health and Food Security, which has turned them into a climate-friendly online cookbook.
*Trendy costumes
Cheerful colors and modern cuts: the traditional costume is back on trend. In their tailor shop in Schleedorf near Salzburg, the Wimmer family shows how traditional costume fashion is constantly being reinterpreted – and is now in the 9th generation.
*48 years for a castle
In 1976 Johann Elbe began building his own castle:
as a 24-year-old with capital of 2,000 schillings in the garden of his parents’ house in Globasnitz in Carinthia. The carpenter does almost everything himself – from artistic door carvings to stucco.
Editor: Mag. Sabine Daxberger-Edenhofer
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