Be very quiet. What do you hear? You might hear mallards, table ducks and shelducks quacking in the lakes. Or you might hear the plaintive call of the curlew and the song of the woodlark. Perhaps the tapping of the green woodpecker. The rustling of a lizard in the bushes or a creaking branch when a roe deer or fallow deer is on it. So, as you can see, it can be quite busy in the Sea Dunes. And if that is not enough, a few kilometres away is a gull breeding colony. So look and listen carefully, maybe the animals will show themselves.
Question 7: You will find several species of ducks here: the mallard and the shelduck. Which ones more? Take the first letter of the answer.
Local farmers used to let their cattle graze in this area. The lord of Haamstede Castle paid them for this. By kicking their hooves and grazing, you got a lot of different plants in the landscape. From the 1960s, farmers focused on tourists and the grazers disappeared. The dune grasslands became quite overgrown, but with many of the same plants and trees. Then the rabbits also got sick, so they too disappeared from the dunes. Lots of the same plants, means fewer animals. A big problem that had to be solved. Imagine you are a protector of the Sea Dunes. How would you solve it?