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Nature development in the Natura2000 upper floodplains of the river IJssel (Floodplain development)
Start date: Jun 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2017,
Background
The project is located in an area known as IJsselpoort and consists of the two sub-areas of Koppenwaard and Velperwaarden. The area is formed by the upper floodplains of the river IJssel, which is included in the Natura 2000 network of protected sites because of the presence of large areas of several threatened habitats and species.
The area i ...
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Realisation of Natura 2000 targets for calcareous white, grey dunes and dune slacks in three Dutch dune sites (Dutch dune revival)
Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2015,
Background
The project area consists of three well-known Dutch dune complexes, all part of the Natura 2000 network: Voornes Duin, Duinen Goeree & Kwade Hoek and Kennemerland-Zuid.
Duinen Goeree & Kwade Hoek is the youngest area, situated in the delta in the southwest of the country. As well as calcareous and decalcified dry dunes and older dune slacks, s ...
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Wetlands: challenges and innovation in succession management (Wetland succession)
Start date: Aug 1, 2006, End date: Dec 31, 2011,
Background
The wetlands of Wieden and Weerribben belong to some of the most valuable wetland ecosystems in Western Europe. The complete wetland area of Wieden en Weerribben, which covers around 9000 ha, was formed after the last glacial event that deposited peat in undeep lagunes that were isolated from the sea by coastal dunes. This mechanism was once ve ...
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Biotope improvement for Crex crex in the brook valley of SPA Drents-Friese Wold (Drents-Friese Wold)
Start date: Nov 1, 2000, End date: Dec 31, 2006,
Background
The 6,500 ha Drents-Friese Wold National Park is a semi-natural landscape of mesophilic grassland, heath and deciduous forest. It has long been an important nesting area for the corncrake (Crex crex).
The upper courses of two streams, the Vledder Aa and the Tilgrup, and the grasslands associated with them, traditionally formed the heart of ...
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Peat bog restoration programme of the Korenburgerveen (Korenburgerveen)
Start date: Jan 1, 2001, End date: Dec 31, 2005,
Background
At the end of the last Ice Age, some 10 000 years ago, extensive peat bogs developed where the border between the Netherlands and Germany is now. After the bogs around Amsterdam, Utrecht and Haarlem had been dug up for peat production, layers of peat further inland were exploited.
Thus large quantities were cut in the Korenburgerveen (Korenbur ...
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