Black protective cover (2) Plantagard (3) Biowit (4) New planting with protection at the demo site of Hardenberg forest ranger's office - In the spring of 2026, Lennart Baas and his colleagues from the IJsselvallei and Vechtdal team (State Forestry) will have quite a bit of new [...]
Excursion to the replica demonstration forest at Pijnenburg Estate during FSC-PEFC training day - In April, the Bosgroepen once again organised a training day for the holders of the FSC and PEFC group certificates. During the morning programme, Etiënne Thomassen (on behalf of LIFE Climate Forest) gave a presentation on the [...]
Students from Ghent University visit demonstration forest 't Zand - On Wednesday 15 April, students from Ghent University came to the Netherlands for an excursion. They were guests of Bosgroep Zuid Nederland that day and also visited a [...]
Film about exemplary forest Beegderheide - Province of Limburg (one of the supporting provinces of LIFE Climate Forest) has made a short film about the exemplary forest Beegderheide. Province of Limburg: "Trees and forests are part of the Limburg landscape. The preservation and management of the [...]
Demo tour along climate-smart species - Anyone interested in how climate-smart species are doing in the Netherlands is welcome to make the route along some 26 species themselves. The newly published brochure indicates the route and offers more information [...]
Monitoring the Liessel forests in pictures - We previously wrote about the monitoring of new planting in some sample LIFE Climate Forest forests in this article on Nature Today and yesterday (3 December 2025) the Liessel forests were [...]
Monitoring planting in sample forests - Province of North Brabant is organising the Biodiversity and Habitats symposium for the 12th time on 3 December 2025. And this year, too, we will be there... At 12.00h in the Bois Le-Duc Hall: The Brabant forest of the [...]
Monitoring planting in example forests - A lot of new trees are being planted within the LIFE Climate Forest project, but that does not mean that in ten years' time there will actually be that many mature trees. Indeed: within a year, some of them may already be [...]
Getting started yourself with LOTJ in Baarle-Nassau - Hans van Lommel, forest ecologist at Bosgroep Zuid Nederland, gave a guided tour of the Dutch Pine Forest in Baarle-Nassau earlier this month. During the tour, he talked about the revitalisation of the area. In [...]
Interview LOTJ Landgoed Zandbergen and Landgoed Maretak - In Loon op Zand in an offshoot of the shifting sands of the Loonse and Drunense Dunes are the Zandbergen and Maretak estates. The woods are connected at the back and this area has been designated as LOTJ [...]
