Rewilding Fail - Tragedy in the Netherlands - Oostvaardersplassen

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Rewilding is a fast-growing movement and globally boasts many successes. It creates wilder, more biodiverse habitats by enabling natural processes to shape land and sea. It repair’s damaged ecosystems and restores degraded landscapes.

But what about when it goes wrong?

The unique nature reserve Oostvaardersplassen, which I will refer to as the OVP here on, became known as the dutch Serengeti. It was a flagship example for rewilding in nature conservation. In fact, it was celebrated in a 2013 Dutch film called The New Wilderness. Large herbivores such as Konik ponies, red deer, and Heck cattle have been introduced there since the early 1980s and roam free on the low-lying marsh reclaimed from the sea. The overpopulation of herbivores was inevitable, demanding an intensively managed interventionist strategy. The small size of the area was mitigated by the possibility of connectivity through the promise of potential corridors. The corridors were never introduced so the animals were ‘locked in. Tragically in the winter of 2017 over half of the 5230 large herbivores died, most of them as a result of starvation.

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