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Meandering Neerbeek With Beaver Activity

Meandering Neerbeek With Beaver Activity

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Location: Haelen, Limburg, Netherlands

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1. Leubeek – Leubeek loop from Neer

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2. Leubeek – Leubeek loop from Nunhem

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3. Leumolen (St. Ursula Watermill) – Leubeek loop from Roggel

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Anneke B.

February 19, 2024

The Neerbeek winds through the meadows. The beaver also feels at home here

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Emiel

March 30, 2024

The Neerbeek has been restored in many places, i.e. its meandering shape has been restored. A wonderful initiative. This has created beautiful nature around the Neerbeek.

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Albertissimo

July 20, 2024

Interesting, detailed information about the reintroduction of beavers and otters in the Netherlands

burgerszoo.de/nieuws/2022/07/fischotter-und-biber-sind-in-den-niederlanden-wieder-heimisch

. . . Today we can hardly imagine it, but for a long time not a single otter or beaver could be found in the entire Netherlands.

In 1826, the last wild beaver was caught and killed on the IJssel River.

From that sad moment on, the beaver was officially extinct in the Netherlands.

. . . . so that in 1988 a reintroduction project for the gnawing builder was launched. Between 1988 and 1991, pairs of beavers that came from the Elbe region in the former GDR were released into what is now De Biesbosch National Park. After this successful reintroduction, beavers were also released into the Gelderse Poort nature reserve in the province of Gelderland in 1994.

. . .how razor-sharp the rodents' chisel-shaped front teeth were: "A scalpel is nothing compared to that!" In any case, for him they are spectacular, charismatic animals: with a head-body length of no less than 70 to 100 centimeters and a weight of up to 30 kilograms, beavers are the largest rodents in Europe.

. . .At the end of 2019, the total number of local beavers was estimated at 3,500 animals. Beavers have now been spotted again in almost all provinces of our country, but there are particularly many of them in Gelderland, Limburg, not North Brabant and South Holland and Flevoland.

The otter lasted a little longer, but due to persistent prejudices - otters were said to empty entire rivers, for example, and thus threaten the livelihoods of Dutch fishermen - the animals were hunted intensively until the 1960s. The last otter was run over in 1989 in the province of Friesland. From then on, the otter was officially extinct in the Netherlands.

In 2002, it was also time for the otter to return to the Netherlands. Several pairs of this species were also relocated here from Eastern Europe.

. . . and finally released in the De Weerribben-Wieden National Park.

In 2020, the number of otters in the Netherlands was estimated at 450, compared to 360 a year earlier.

My own comment: it will probably only be a matter of time before the otter becomes native to Limburg again

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Location: Haelen, Limburg, Netherlands

Meandering Neerbeek With Beaver Activity

1. Leubeek – Leubeek loop from Neer

2. Leubeek – Leubeek loop from Nunhem

3. Leumolen (St. Ursula Watermill) – Leubeek loop from Roggel

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