Traditional pasturing is still alive in Lonjsko Polje. With the coming of spring and the retreat of the floods, the people let their farm animals – cows, horses and pigs of old traditional breeds out into the plain to graze. Lonjsko Polje is one of the last regions in Europe where this manner of raising livestock has been retained. Traditional pasturing is an archaic system where several species of animal are kept together. For the use of moist habitats, this is the most economical method. There is a certain logical sequence to the nutrition. The Turopolje pigs prepare the pasture by rooting up the soil, which helps high quality grass to grow for the big animals like Posavac Horse, Croatian Draughthorse and the Slavonian-Syrmian Podolian cow that come afterwards on the pastures. This kind of system is essential for the maintenance of the livestock and the protection of biological diversity. The cultural landscape of Lonjsko Polje is an outstanding example of an area in which people have totally adjusted their way of life to the floods. The long and unbroken tradition of living with the waters has created an system that is intertwined with all aspects of human interaction with the environment, such as the traditional buildings, the organisation of the settlements and the formation of the landscapes, the use of the soil, the sturdy landrace breeds that are so well adjusted to the conditions of flooding. People have organised their lives on the safest places, the slight eminences or ridges along the river itself. Behind the settlements there are the orchards, ploughed fields and meadows, then further off the hay meadows and pastureland that is often under water. This sequence of land use is exactly attuned to the coming of the flood and then the retreat of the waters.