About Nature Policy, Large Ecosystems
in a Small and Crowded Country
and the Role Large Herbivores can Play:
Challenges For Future!

von H. Kampf, Wageningen / Niederlande

3. Goals and Tasks

As indicated above, clear goals have been set for the implementation of the new nature policy. A number of these goals are set out below as an example.

• The National Ecological Network will be completely defined and spatially secured by 2005 at the latest.
• In 2020 the possibilities for migration within or between units will be secured by the elimination of the physical barriers.
• In 2020 7 new strategic, robust linking zones (ecological corridors - arteries) will be completed.
• In 2020 25,000 ha of ecological corridors (veins, besides the "capillary vessels" along ditches, roads, etc. ) will be in place.
• The quantitative realisation schedule for the National Ecological Network and new extension will be guaranteed up to 2018.
• In 2018 the management of the complete ecological network will be aimed at the quality targets set by the National Government.
• In 2004 a system of National Parks will be in place consisting of 17 national and one cross-border park.
• In 2020 all the conditions will be in place for the sustainable conservation of the native species and populations found in 1982.
• In 2020 environmental quality will be such that it does not form a barrier to the quality goals to be achieved within the National Ecological Network.
• Co-use (e.g. access) of the National Ecological Network is of a sustainable nature.

• in 2010 90% of the National Ecological Network will be accessible for extensive recreation
• in establishing and managing the National Ecological Network, the public’s wishes will be taken into consideration (inasmuch as they fit with the desired goals for nature)
• public accessibility is incorporated in the 2000 Subsidy Scheme for Nature Management as a primary condition
• the State asks the provinces to make agreements with land management bodies about qualitative details of recreational use
• basic principle is that intensively-used areas alternate with quiet
  areas, safeguarding diversity of the types of recreation offered.