Between 2018 and April 2024, the province of Utrecht, along with Staatsbosbeheer, restored 34 kilometers of nature on the Grebbelinie dike. They did this to protect and develop biodiversity. This measure has improved the habitat for weak animal and plant species. And the significance of the Grebbe Line as an ecological connecting zone will increase. On Could 22, 2024, deputy Mirjam Sterk celebrated this milestone along with these concerned.
Mirjam Sterk (proper) symbolically transfers administration to Jelka Each (left), Head of Forestry Administration of the province of Utrecht.
Grebbe line as an vital nature connection
The Grebbe Line is a historic protection line the place historical past can nonetheless be learn within the panorama. The road additionally varieties an vital ecological connection throughout the Netherlands Nature Community (a community of linked nature reserves in our nation) and connects varied landscapes within the Gelderse Valley. The Grebbe Line itself has all kinds of dwelling environments, comparable to dry and moist vegetation, grassland, varied flowering herbaceous plant species and water. This makes it an excellent habitat for animals comparable to deer, badgers, otters and pine martens. They transfer simply from one habitat to a different within the shelter of the dikes. This additionally applies to amphibians and bugs. Bats discover meals and shelter in outdated tree cavities and the bunkers alongside the Liniedijk.
Mirjam Sterk, deputy for Nature and Agriculture: “For a minimum of six years, we now have labored very exhausting right here on the Grebbe Line to revive nature. The endurance of the avid walker has been put to the check. However, as we will see, that’s actually not in useless. 34 kilometers of nature have been restored, permitting biodiversity on this space to extend once more and the Netherlands Nature Community to be strengthened. We now confidently switch the administration to Staatsbosbeheer splendidly lovely piece of nature in our province.”
