On Thursday, 22 May 2025, at Pogačar Square, we are preparing the Biodiverse Festival, with which we are marking the International Day for Biological Diversity for the third consecutive year. This year, the festival is complemented by a screening of the film Wild Slovenia and a discussion on the impact of nature documentaries in raising social awareness about the necessity of nature conservation.

The first part of the event will again this year take place in the form of a biodiverse market, where visitors will be able to smell beaver meat, feel otter and beaver fur, try their hand at identifying plants and insects, participate in a prize draw and be surprised by the many diverse interesting facts about the living world.
The second part of the festival, which we have prepared together with the University of Ljubljana's Food for Thought Festival, is titled What (still) moves us?. This part is intended for a viewing of the film Wild Slovenia and a discussion on the influence of nature documentaries in raising social awareness about the necessity of nature conservation.

Biodiverse market

Location: Pogačar Square
Date: 22 May 2025
Duration: from 9:00 to 18:00
Admission free
24 organizations will be presented at the stands:
• Biotechnical Faculty, Department of Biology, University of Ljubljana
• Botanical Society of Slovenia
• Centre for Cartography of Fauna and Flora
• SloBees Society (Društvo Čmrljica)
• Dinaricum Society (Društvo Dinaricum)
• Diversity Society (Društvo Raznolikost)
• Society for the Study and Conservation of Slovenian Butterflies (Društvo za proučevanje in ohranjanje metuljev Slovenije)
• Herpetological Society (Herpetološko društvo)
• Agricultural Institute of Slovenia
• Ljubljana Marshes Landscape Park
• Lutra, Institute for Conservation of Natural Heritage (LUTRA, inštitut za ohranjanje naravne dediščine)
• City of Ljubljana, Department of Environmental Potection
• Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food
• Citizen Science Network (Mreža občanske znanosti)
• National Institute of Biology
• Slovenian Museum of Natural History
• Slovenian Natural History Society (Prirodoslovno društvo Slovenije)
• Slovenian Society for the Study and Protection of Bats (Slovensko društvo za proučevanje in varstvo netopirjev)
• Slovenian Odonatological Society (Slovensko odonatološko društvo)
• Tivoli, Rožnik and Šiška Hill Landscape Park Service (VOKA SNAGA d.o.o.)
• Hart Publishing (Založba Hart)
• BOB Institute (Zavod BOB)
• Institute of the Republic of Slovenia for Nature Conservation

Slovenian Forest Service

The documentary film Wild Slovenia by director Matej Vranič takes viewers through five different ecosystems (the Alpine world, the Karst underground, the Adriatic Sea, the Dinaric forests and the Pannonian plains), showing the diverse fauna and flora of Slovenia, with an emphasis on mammals and birds. The film screening will be followed by a discussion on the role of nature film. The event "What (still) moves us?" was created in cooperation between the Biodiverse Festival of the City of Ljubljana and Food for Thought Festival of the University of Ljubljana and will take place as part of the NOO ULTRA – University of Ljubljana for Sustainable Development project, co-financed by the Republic of Slovenia, the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Innovation and the European Union – NextGenerationEU.