last update on 17-07-06

project title:
 Nationaal Park de Hoge Veluwe
region:
 Gelderland
contact:
 Bart Boers
Bartboers@Hogeveluwe.nl
Herbert Diemont
e-mail: Herbert.Diemont@wur.nl

website: www.hogeveluwe.nl
country:
 The Netherlands
The project
main goals:

 - To maintain the park as a nature reserve.
- To offer space for the visual arts and architecture, whereby the foundation strives for synergy between nature and culture.
- Leisure: enabling its visitors to enjoy nature and culture.
- All this subject to one condition, namely that the management and operation takes place autonomously and with financial independence.
main participants:

 Vereniging van Vrienden van De Hoge Veluwe’ - Association of Friends of the Hoge Veluwe.
ANWB - Dutch Motoring Association.
time schedule:

 the Park was officially established in 1935.
project details:

 National Park De Hoge Veluwe is one of the Netherlands' oldest and largest national parks. It consists of no less than 5,500 hectares of woodland, heathland, lakes and driftsand. Together with the Kroller-Muller Museum and the sculpture garden it offers a unique combination of nature, art and architecture.
De Hoge Veluwe is a park where visitors can still find plenty of space and peace. Where you can walk undisturbed for hours, or cycle using one of the free white bicycle. It is home to many endangered plant and animal species. Have you ever come face to face with a red deer, moufflon or roe deer? It can happen at De Hoge Veluwe!
budget:

 € 8,800000
funded by:
 80% self-sufficient; funds generated mainly by tourism.
Benefits
ecological benefits:
 De Hoge Veluwe is made up of around 50% woodland and 50% open land. It is home to a rich and varied world of plants and animals. The Park is home to dozens of endangered species, such as the wheatear and the nightjar, moor frog, grass snake, silver-spotted skipper butterfly, the heath fritillary butterfly, the pine marten and such animals as badgers.
The Park also includes around 2500 hectares of heathland and driftsand landscape. Living driftsand is unique to Europe, and survives hardly anywhere. Because the driftsand in the Park was also being threatened by vegetation, the driftsand project was initiated in 2001. Since then some 100 hectares of driftsand have been saved.
socio-economic benefits:
 Roughly 40 hectares of the Park consists of agricultural land, together with roads, cycle paths, car parks, museum grounds, gardens, etc., catering for an average of 500,000 visitors per year.
The Park employes for 150 full-time jobs and 350 volunteers are involved.
The Park also generates 34 million euro/year for the Gross regional income.
other benefits:
 The Park houses the Kröller Müller Museum, world-famous for its large collection of paintings by Vincent van Gogh. The museum also houses impressive works by George Seurat, Pablo Picasso, Fernand Leger, Piet Mondriaan and many other leading artists.
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