January Online Tea Talk

In the fourth webinar in our series, ‘Our Limestone Landscapes’, we will hear from Nika Debeljak from Institute for Nature Conservation of the Republic of Slovenia.
More than 40 % of Slovenian territory is made up of limestone. Diversity of the limestone landscapes here varies from alpine to lowland forms and from surface to underground forms. This talk will introduce the wonderful diversity of these limestone landscapes in Slovenia and also present efforts to preserve their natural and cultural heritage.

Nika Debeljak finished Biology at the Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana. She carried out her doctoral research at the King Park and Botanic Garden, Perth, Australia. Upon completion of her studies, she worked at the University of Ljubljana, Department of Biology. Since 2003 she has been employed at the Institute for Nature Conservation of the Republic of Slovenia, where she first carried out tasks of the scientific authority for the CITES Convention. Since 2010 she has been managing various projects in the field of nature conservation, among others projects “Conservation and Management of Freshwater Wetlands in Slovenia (WETMAN) and Conservation and management of dry grasslands in Eastern Slovenia (LIFE TO GRASSLANDS).

The talk is free to attend but registration is essential at the link above. Attending the talk requires you to have a free Zoom app on your device (You can download it at www.zoom.us). Upon registration on the above link, you will be sent an email with a link that you can use to attend the talk.

Burrenbeo’s monthly Online Tea Talks take place every second Wednesday of the month between 8 and 9pm via the online platform of Zoom . There is a 40-minute talk by a guest speaker followed by a Q&A session. Attendees are able to text in their questions via the Q&A box in their Zoom panel.

In the following monthly sessions we will hear from experts on the ground from limestone landscapes of  Kentucky USA and Newfoundland, Canada to get a sense of these places, learn about their natural and cultural heritage and issues, ideas and innovations around their conservation and care. Registration links for all the subsequent talks will be available here on www.burrenbeo.com/latest . To view recordings of our previous online Tea Talks, please visit Burrenbeo’s YouTube channel.