ABSTRACT
Most people perceive mining sites, landfi lls and sludge beds as the most non-esthetical and completely destroyed “moonscape”, from which all life has vanished. These views correspond with the current approach of landscape architects and experts implementing reclamations, who-even with extremely high costs-use all technical means available in order to erase evidence of these anthropogenic activities. Therefore, post mining sites are brought back to their forestry and agricultural uses as quickly as possible by technical and biological reclamation. In these traditional reclamation methods, ecological functions of these sites are often overlooked (Figs. 1, 2).
