On 11–12 September 2024, a two-day international seminar took place with participants from Germany, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic. It was organized under the auspices of The Czech Forestry Society, who invited participants, expert speakers, and published the proceedings. The seminar with a field trip presented the work and outputs of the ongoing LIFE Adapt Brdy programme. The main topic was a concept of hunting as an integral tool of silviculture. The field trip illustrated the already clearly visible impact of successful reduction of game populations on the blanket regrowth of species-varied natural regeneration and minimal damage to new plantings. There is a change in species composition of the herb layer, which has an effect on the increasing nutritional value of hunting. With the hunting concept, numerous populations of cloven-hoofed animals are brought into a natural balance with the surrounding environment, and the forest thus regains its ability to regenerate without the need to carry out costly and often ultimately ineffective measures against animal damage.
The seminar was attended by over sixty participants from a diverse spectrum of forestry organizations and institutions.
