Productions
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16 September 2007
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BBC Scotland / Eorpa
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Make Dutch nature wild again |
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An epic landscape experiment is underway in the Netherlands. Its aim is to make Holland, the most developed of all European countries, wild again. Its method is to establish a vast network of natural habitats and wildlife corridors. Frans Vera, one of the ecologists driving the project, imagines it as a 'green circulation system' that will allow the freer movement of non-human species around North West Europe. Plans for the project show a mesh of green arteries, veins and capillaries, covering much of Holland and infiltrating Germany and Belgium. A conflict occurs when the wild animals die in winter caused by over population. Since the general public does not want to see deer, horses and reintroduced primeval bulls die of hunger, it is decided to kill the animals that are sick. How wild can a natural reserve run in a developed world ?
Activities: research, set up, accompanying filming & interviews.