Management

Abstract

The nature management practices of grazing and cutting can be implemented for several purposes. Historical, cultural and aesthetic ones are not discussed here. One of the aims of nature conservation, is the maintenance of or the creation of conditions in natural and semi-natural landscapes for as many species as possible and, in particular, for those which are rare or endangered. The different practices are maintenance management and restoration management (see section I.C). The restoration management discussed in this study, namely that of grazing and cutting did not result in the re-establishment of rare or endangered species. Some species emerging in (fragments of) the Saginion maritimae in the salt marsh, in the Violion caninae in the reclaimed grassland and in the Calthion palustris and Juncion acutiflori in the valley grasslands do, however, represent a nature conservation interest.