Limburg Wildfire Wiped Out Rare Juniper Shrubland - DutchNews.nl
The fire destroyed 100 hectares and left the reserve’s rare juniper shrubland with fewer than 100 surviving bushes, the foundation said.
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Between charred branches, some smoke occasionally curls from the sooty ground, accompanied by a few small flames. A week and a half ago, the major fire broke out in the Boschhuizerbergen nature reserve near Venray. Although it is under control, it is still not completely extinguished. Small consolation: "Fire also offers new opportunities."
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Only around 100 of the roughly 4,000 juniper bushes that once grew in the Boschhuizerbergen nature reserve have survived a major wildfire, according to the Het Limburgs Landschap foundation.The wildfire started on Monday, August 3, and burned for several days before being brought under control. A week later, firefighters said they expected to spend at least another week extinguishing remaining hotspots. About 100 hectares of natural land were de…
Fewer than a hundred juniper bushes survived the major fire in the Boschhuizerbergen nature reserve in Limburg. Before the fire broke out last week, there were still about 4,000 bushes. The juniper bushes are extremely important for Limburg. "You had the largest juniper scrubland in the southern Netherlands at this location. That is a very special natural phenomenon," Loek Hendrikx of the Limburg Landscape Foundation told the NOS. The bushes c…
Due to the large fire in the North Limburg nature reserve Boschhuizerbergen, only a little over a hundred of the approximately 4,000 juniper bushes that grew there remain. This is reported by the Het Limburgs Landschap foundation.
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