📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
We will work together with the “LEiV” (Verein Lebende Erde), a landscape protector group in the European NATURA2000-site “Teile des Südoststeirischen Hügellandes”.
💼 What the programme involves
We will work on the meadows to make hay, and in the woodlands to clean them from neophytes. The core idea is to assist the Organisation with the traditional-art of work that aims to preserve the area and its wildlife.
Also, we will help at the European-Roller festival
(A protected bird from the region). Moreover, we will also have excursions to the wonderful protected species living on the side and visit the Mur-river for swimming.
Please bear in mind that we are going to be working with our hands under the sun and that some hard-work is expected! Also be aware that the work will take place outdoor all the time, different weather conditions should not be a big problem for you (you should like to be outdoor most of the time).
As integration with the community is a key element, we will have cultural interactions with the people in Straden and in the surrounding.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Accommodation: We will be hosted in a school in Straden.
Food: We will cook for ourselves. (Please inform us whether you require a special diet).
📍 About the location
Straden is a municipality in the district of Südoststeiermark in the Austrian state of Styria, close to the Slovenian border. The town is in the middle of vinyards and sunflower fields.
The local host and mayor are always keen on showing the volunteers the surroundings and specialities.