News WOT Natuur & Milieu
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New mussel beds in Wadden Sea manage to survive
- Wageningen Marine Research has been studying the development of a number of tidal mussel beds in the Dutch Wadden Sea for more than 25 years.... -
Nature in Conflict: Lessons from conflicts about conservation management by hunting and tree cutting
- Using hunting as a way of nature management and clearing forests in order to transform these into other types of nature signify two forms of... -
Otter population keeps growing, the number of road kills too
- After the otter became extinct in the Netherlands in 1988, a programme for re-introducing otters has been implemented since 2002. The data found... -
The Netherlands is not going to meet 2020 biodiversity targets
- The accelerating rate of biodiversity decline is unprecedented. Together with global warming this is one of the major threats to mankind, IPBES states... -
National maps show opportunities for exploiting natural capital
- The exploitation and protection of natural capital can contribute to the sustainability of food production, drinking water production and water... -
EU nature policies become more effective if they link more closely to the wide variety of people’s values
- Halting biodiversity loss is an important and persistent problem. The occurrence of many species in the EU is expected to further decline between now...