Focused on high-altitude habitat restoration and technical slope stabilisation in Alpine and Subalpine terrain across Central Europe.
Alpine ecosystems face accelerating pressure from climate change, tourism infrastructure development, and land-use intensification. Retreating glaciers expose unstable terrain. Ski resort expansion disturbs high-altitude habitats. Traditional alpine farming practices that maintained grassland biodiversity are declining.
Restoration at altitude is technically demanding and ecologically sensitive. Growing seasons are compressed. Soils are thin or absent. Species pools are limited. Standard revegetation approaches designed for lowland conditions consistently fail above 1,500m.
Restoring alpine grassland communities, stabilising glacier forelands, and supporting species recolonisation on disturbed terrain. Uses locally sourced seed material, site-adapted substrate amendments, and establishment techniques proven at altitude.
Focus: Alps, Pyrenees, Scandinavian highlands
Engineering slope stability on high-altitude terrain using vegetation-based approaches — live staking, brush layering, and bioengineered retaining structures that integrate with natural slope dynamics rather than resisting them.
Focus: Infrastructure corridors, ski area development zones, post-construction sites above 1,000m
AVRP is open to practitioners with alpine vegetation experience, researchers working on high-altitude ecology, and organisations planning restoration projects in mountainous terrain.