Restoration work is currently not fully complete, which is why both felled trees and branches, as well as uneven patches of sand, are visible. These are homes for protected plants, such as the pasqueflower and members of the orchid family. If we want these plants not to gradually disappear from our area over time, restoration work on the grey dunes is very important.
“Grey dunes, which are vital for the survival of many species, have effectively disappeared,” admitted Andrejs Svilāns, Director General of the Nature Conservation Agency. “Sometimes we get reproaches – how can you cut down pines in the coastal dunes! Or why are you mechanically scraping away the undergrowth in places, burning branches, and scorching the moss! Many of us certainly know a very decorative plant called the pasqueflower. I myself have seen in pine forests, and in wooded coastal dunes too, where moss has grown to such an extent that in spring the pasqueflower tries to push its new leaves through the moss, but it cannot get through.”