Grazing

Questions & statements

Reintroduction of rabbits?Julie Creer (National resources Wales)

• at sites with decimated rabbit population or where livestock grazing is no

option

• viability

• vegetation response

• limitations

• failures

• drawbacks

Grazing or mowing?Leo Jalink (Province South-Holland)

• which one gives the best results for vegetation & other organisms

• is mowing better but too expensive?

Should we graze al all?Leo Jalink (Province South-Holland)

• some grazed dune grasslands change into rather uninteresting

vegetations

• in other places grazing leads to extensive Juncus vegetations, followed by

forest (Betula)

• grazing often has a destructive effect on terrestrial lichens and acrocarp

mosses

Do we reach our N 2000-goals with grazing?Arjen Kok (secretary NP Schiermonnikoog)

• effectiveness against grass & shrub encroachement

• one grazer or a mix?

• how to decide when grazing has both positive and negative effects?

Statements

We are/were better off without large

grazers, also with low rabbit densities

Start rabbit farming

In a dynamic dune system grazing by

livestock needs to be dynamic too

Grazing or mowing?