In October 2004, the Sebangau area of Kalimantan, in the Indonesian part of Borneo was declared a national park. The region is a very dense, almost impenetrable swamp forest, and […]
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In this edition of our weekly magazine on developments in this country, Dutch Horizons, science editor Anne Blair Gould looks at the 100th anniversary of Natuurmonumenten, the Dutch Society for […]
Every year the Netherlands is the favourite stopover of millions of migrating birds, including 1.5 million geese. It’s all about location, location, location. The Netherlands has the world’s best conditions […]
In the chilly highlands of Iceland, construction is under way. Roads are being made to serve a new hydro-electric power plant, which doesn’t yet exist. If it’s built, this will […]
In this programme we hear the strange story of the Dutch Island of Schokland. For centuries islanders battled against the raging Zuider sea. In 1859 they lost the fight and […]
Anne Blair Gould traces the history of the international conservation movement, which resulted in the establishment of the Worldwide Fund for Nature. The founding president was His Royal Highness Prince […]