Meadow Birds
Fortunately, there is a growing awareness that something needs to be done and there are more and more farmers who look for and mark the nests before mowing so they can mow around them or who take other measures to help the meadow birds.
Go in search of the meadow birds
Throughout the Netherlands, meadow birds such as the black-tailed godwit and the lapwing are doing badly. This is mainly due to intensive agriculture which has a much greater impact on the environment and nature than organic farming. By mowing early, nests of meadow birds are destroyed and even chicks are killed. Because the soil must be dry enough to support the heavy tractors, the water level on the farmland is lowered, so it is not moist enough for earthworms and other soil animals that the meadow birds actually live on. Also, spraying the pastures and fields with poison, leads to deaths of meadow birds. Also within the Pauwels estate and its surroundings, typical Dutch rural species such as the partridge and the lapwing are disappearing.
Contact
Zijstraat , 5171 NC Kaatsheuvel
