Welfare protest that both options are cruel and that the animals deserve to To fund conservation and sustainable farming (Den Hollander 2018). (Staatsbosbeheer n.d.) and some have also promoted selling meat from the culls That see it as a wildlife management issue advocate culling Those that see OVPĪs a wild issue advocate allowing animals to starve (Breeveld 2010). Mass starvation events have been mixed (NOS 20). Prospered at first, until their numbers exceeded their habitat’s carryingĬapacity and animals started to starve (Shoreman-Ouimet and Kopnina 2016 Once introduced to the area, the deer, horses, and cattle Netherlands were open savannahs characterized by wild grazers. The paleo-ecologicalĭata used for creating OVP supported by the ‘founding father’ of the area,įrans Vera (2009), suggested that historically many areas in what is now The
Recreate Pleistocene-like conditions (Vera 2009 Lorimer and Driessen 2014). TheĬontroversy is centered on Oostvaardersplassen (OVP), a 56-square-kilometerįenced-off reserve, into which megafauna have been introduced to Protestors are not against the animals’ reintroductions, but instead areĭemanding that they be better cared for (Barkham 2018). Return of large wild animals with antagonism.
Large deer, wild horses, and aurochs-like cattle (Vera 2009). The protesters want to see an end to the “rewilding”Įxperiment, which has brought megafauna back to the Netherlands in the form of Some were even dispersed by the police and Netherlands, protestors have been brandishing “Stop So what are the alternative ways forward? Conflict on the polders All four Cs are absent from Oostvaardeplassen, which can, therefore, be considered an example of how rewilding should not be undertaken. Using the history of the Oostvaardeplassen project as a case study, the scientific and ethical constraints and opportunities for rewilding are discussed. This article adds to the “golden rules” of rewilding (the 3 Cs), that of Cores, Carnivores, and Corridors, a fourth C – Compassion – which would ensure that any (re)introduction must be in the interests of the individual animals involved. Helen Kopina, Simon Leadbeater, Paul Cryer
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