What We Do

We organize practical care for land, animals, nature, and culture.

Ideella Foreningen Allmogen Landskap Djur Natur Kultur brings together residents, volunteers, land stewards, and cultural organizers to protect what makes local life durable and shared.

  • We defend open landscapes, grazing traditions, wetlands, forests, and public paths.
  • We support animal welfare and biodiversity through direct field work and local advocacy.
  • We connect nature care with cultural memory, community education, and intergenerational knowledge.
  • We turn concern into action through campaigns, volunteer days, resource packs, and public participation.
Core programs

Four connected areas of work.

Our projects are built to reinforce one another. Healthy landscapes support animals, thriving ecosystems strengthen community life, and cultural knowledge helps long-term stewardship continue.

Open meadow landscape in Dalarna

Landscape stewardship

We support the care of meadows, pastureland, shoreline corridors, and shared outdoor spaces that define the living landscape around Rättvik and the wider Dalarna region.

That work includes monitoring change, raising awareness, supporting restoration efforts, and advocating for long-term public access and responsible use.

People gathered during a local community activity

Animal and habitat care

We promote animal welfare as part of a broader ecological responsibility, with attention to both domestic grazing animals and the habitats that sustain wildlife and pollinators.

Our members help document conditions, support seasonal field efforts, and share practical knowledge that improves care on the ground.

Volunteers working together in a shared outdoor setting

Community action and education

We run meetings, public conversations, volunteer days, and outreach activities that make local participation easy and concrete.

People join us to learn, contribute, and stay informed about decisions that affect landscapes, animals, natural areas, and common cultural resources.

Natural scenery connected to local cultural heritage

Cultural continuity

We treat culture as something lived in place: paths, grazing patterns, seasonal rhythms, oral memory, and shared ways of using and understanding the land.

Our work helps keep that continuity visible by connecting present-day organizing with local heritage and everyday stewardship.

How we work

From observation to action.

Community members meeting outdoors

Listen locally

We begin with local knowledge, concerns from residents, and close attention to what is changing in the landscape and community.

Protected natural environment with layered scenery

Document clearly

We gather observations, practical evidence, and place-based information that can support both public understanding and responsible decision-making.

Group activity focused on collective stewardship

Mobilize together

We organize campaigns, field days, and shared responses that make community care visible, disciplined, and sustained over time.

Why it matters
“Care for the land becomes durable when people, animals, ecosystems, and culture are defended together.”
Ideella Foreningen Allmogen Landskap Djur Natur Kultur
What this looks like in practice

Work that is visible in the field and useful in the community.

Field days

Volunteer work supports direct stewardship.

Members take part in seasonal activities that strengthen care for local places, assist with documentation, and help keep community attention focused where it matters.

Public voice

Campaigns make local concerns legible and collective.

We prepare briefings, petitions, meeting participation, and outreach materials that help residents speak with more clarity and force.

Shared learning

Knowledge circulates across generations and roles.

Our events and resources bring together neighbors, organizers, caretakers, and supporters so practical experience is not lost or isolated.

Long view

We build continuity instead of one-off reactions.

The goal is not only to respond to immediate pressure, but to keep stronger habits of stewardship alive across seasons and years.

What supporters can access

Resources that help people participate well.

We prepare materials that make it easier to understand issues, show up effectively, and contribute to local work with confidence.

Visit resources & FAQ
  • Background briefs on local landscape, animal, and nature issues
  • Volunteer guidance for meetings, outreach, and field participation
  • Talking points for community conversations and local advocacy
  • Information that links ecological care with cultural heritage
  • Clear routes into contact, membership, and continuing involvement