Nibbly Neighbors
Freiburg, Jul 03, 2018
Foto: Jürgen Gocke
Four sheep and three goats: this slightly different household has been living in a meadow on Freiburg’s Schlossberg for about a year. They were brought here by PhD student Nicolas Schoof from the Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources. In a cooperative project with the Further Education Academy of the German Caritas Association which owns the area, he is studying long-term changes to flora and fauna as a result of grazing. In order to make the summer as pleasant as possible for the sheep, Schoof has invited a guest to the meadow.
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Article on the grazing project in the University magazine uni’leben