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Restoration and conservation of semi-natural and natural habitats in eastern Ardennes (Belgium) (LIFE NARD-US)

Start date: Jul 7, 2016, End date: Jun 30, 2023,

Background Until the mid-nineteenth century, the High Ardennes region of Belgium consisted of vast areas of heathland and grasslands, shaped by agro-pastoral management with herds of sheep and cattle. In between the high pastures lay valleys where farmers used specific irrigation techniques (‘abissage’) for hay management. As these traditional methods ...
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Conservation of habitats and species of bocage landscapes of the Fagne and Famenne (Bocages)

Start date: Jul 1, 2012, End date: Jun 30, 2020,

Background The conservation status of extensively managed hay meadows in Belgium’s Wallonia region has been assessed as 'unfavourable' under the Article 17 of the EU Habitats Directive. Changing land use patterns continue to present risks to the wildlife that depend on these agricultural landscapes. Wallonia’s 'bocages' are also considered under th ...
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Connectivity of the Natura 2000 network across the Belgian-Dutch borders in the Meuse basin (LIFE Pays mosan)

Start date: Jul 1, 2014, End date: Jun 30, 2020,

Background This project’s area contains 40 Natura 2000 sites (covering 24 566 ha) in Belgium and the Netherlands, within the basin of the Meuse River and its tributaries between Andenne and Maastricht. The river basin has supported highly species-rich habitats related to former pastoral systems. But these habitats have become extremely fragmented and ar ...
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Actions for the valleys and turf moors of Croix Scaille (Belgium) (Cx SCAILLE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2006, End date: Dec 31, 2009,

Background In the past, open habitats such as raised bogs, transition bogs, heaths and grasslands covered a great part of the southern border region between France and Belgium. Many of these habitats and related species are now endangered in Belgium but are still present on the Plateau Croix Scaille, where the river La Houille and its tributary la Hulle t ...
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Actions for Birds of Reedbeds in Bassin de la Haine (Haine)

Start date: Jul 1, 2001, End date: Jun 30, 2005,

Background Reedbeds are widely threatened in northwestern Europe by the intensification of farming, natural succession, river management policies and rural drainage. This is the case with the vast marshland areas of the Haine basin, encompassing the marshes of Harchies-Hensies-Pommeroeul, the meadows of Grand Rieu and the Marionville-Douvrain marshes (to ...
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