Saturday, 24 September 2022

‘This is what a river should look like’: Dutch rewilding project turns back the clock 500 years

‘This is what a river should look like’: Dutch rewilding project turns back the clock 500 years

On the way to being one of the most beautiful nature areas in Europe,” reads a sign overlooking a construction site near the village of Grevenbicht on the Meuse River in the southern Netherlands. Looking at the diggers, other bits of large machinery and bare soil, this is a stretch of the imagination. “You have to sell your story,” says Frans Schepers, managing director of Rewilding Europe, who was leading the largest river-restoration project in Europe.

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