Enjoying the flora: Ingrid Jansen (l.) and Doris Sonderegger during their flash mapping in Tomils. Photo: Andri Dürst, Bünder Woche
Enjoying the flora: Ingrid Jansen (l.) and Doris Sonderegger during their flash mapping in Tomils. Photo: Andri Dürst, Bünder Woche

Bündner Woche: Report on Flora Raetica

Map­ping mis­sion in Tomils — with jour­nal­is­tic sup­port

How does a light­ning inven­to­ry work? Which plants grow around Orten­stein Cas­tle near Tomils? And why are such map­pings impor­tant?

A jour­nal­ist from Bünd­ner Woche accom­pa­nied Ingrid Jansen and Doris Son­dereg­ger on a map­ping mis­sion and gained excit­ing insights into the “Flo­ra Raet­i­ca” project. The report shows how the two employ­ees record plant species, what they look out for when map­ping and what con­tri­bu­tion their obser­va­tions make to the preser­va­tion of the flo­ra of Graubün­den. At the same time, read­ers learn more about the aims and work­ing meth­ods of Flo­ra Raet­i­ca.

The result is a read­able arti­cle about botan­i­cal field­work, the change in flo­ra in Graubün­den and the com­mit­ment of many vol­un­teers to the flo­ra of Graubün­den.

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Most read free news­pa­per in Graubün­den

The “Bünd­ner Woche” is the most wide­ly read free news­pa­per in Graubün­den. It is pub­lished week­ly with a cir­cu­la­tion of almost 52,000 copies. The dis­tri­b­u­tion area includes the Chur Rhine Val­ley, Thu­sis, Prät­ti­gau and Davos.

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Carmelia Arias Linares in Val Tenigia (Val Sumvitg). Photo: Salome Arias Linares.

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In our pro­file series, we intro­duce the peo­ple behind Flo­ra Raet­i­ca.
Today: Carmelia Arias Linares, sec­re­tary from Ilanz.

Since 1900: New Species, Lost Habitats

How has the flo­ra of Graubün­den changed since 1900? At the “Ren­dez-vous am Mit­tag” event, Thomas Wohlge­muth pre­sent­ed the find­ings of the “Flo­ra Raet­i­ca” project to an audi­ence of about 60 inter­est­ed atten­dees.

The third mapping weekend of the season is now behind us: Tschamut

Three days, a lot of ele­va­tion gain, and sur­pris­ing dis­cov­er­ies: Dur­ing the map­ping week­end in the upper Sur­sel­va, par­tic­i­pants record­ed over 4,800 sight­ings of 680 dif­fer­ent species, despite the advanced stage of veg­e­ta­tion.