This is the third story in a three-part Mongabay miniseries on the Dutch nitrogen crisis and farmer protests of 2022: The Dutch, and European, green agenda crashes into the continent’s food systems. Read Part One and Part Two. LEEUWARDEN, Netherlands To a din of mooing and the occasional sound of urine hitting the floor, […]
This is the second story in a three-part Mongabay miniseries on the Dutch nitrogen crisis and farmer protests of 2022: How EU conservation rules shook up Dutch politics. Read Part One here; Part Three will be published soon. LUNTEREN, Netherlands Jan Dirk’s dairy farm in Lunteren, about a 30-minute drive from De Hoge Veluwe […]
The state of nature in the Netherlands is continuing its long decline, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) observed in its latest edition of the Living Planet Report Netherlands, which was published on Thursday. Despite the fact that nature restoration is bearing fruit in a number of areas, nature as a whole is in a bad state. There were a limited number of positive developments mentioned in the report.