Nieuw Land National Park, National park in Flevoland, Netherlands.
Nieuw Land spans four distinct areas with lakes, wetlands, and open water stretches across the newly created Flevoland province. The landscape features flat, expansive horizons with scattered trees and reed beds where water and land blend together.
This area was once seabed of the Zuiderzee before dams drained it to create the new province of Flevoland. Its national park status since 2018 recognizes this engineered landscape as an important natural space.
The park shows how people can actively shape and care for nature. Bird watchers and nature managers use this landscape daily to protect and monitor rare species.
The park is accessible from multiple entry points with observation huts positioned at water edges and elevated locations. The flat terrain makes walking and cycling easy, especially during bird migration seasons.
White-tailed eagles with wingspans over 2 meters have chosen this engineered landscape as a breeding ground, marking their return to the Netherlands. These large raptors show that the designed nature here truly works.
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