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Heathland restoration area

Heathland restoration area

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Heathland restoration area

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Location: Heusden-Zolder, Hasselt, South Limburg, Flanders, Belgium

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Dominiek Van Dooren

January 3, 2025

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Once upon a time, a large part of Limburg was covered with heathland vegetation. This landscape was created by a centuries-old agricultural culture. People lived as small farmers in valleys, …

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Katrien

February 26, 2022

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Because our current agricultural system has been thoroughly changed after WWII, including by artificial fertilizers, maintaining the heathland is no longer so obvious. While it used to be a way …

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January 4, 2025

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In a reasonable part of the Bolderberg nature reserve, heathland restoration yielded results quite quickly for the simple reason that there were still remnants of heathland. The Gust Claesheide mentioned …

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