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Dutch girl murder’s suspect arrested, NOT a refugee

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Marianne Vaatstra

In 1999, in Friesland province in the Netherlands, there was the horrible case of Marianne Vaatstra.

This sixteen-year-old girl from Zwaagwesteinde village was raped and murdered. For thirteen years, the police was unable to find out who was the murderer.

Though the police did not know, Rightist media pundits claimed to know. There were refugee camps in Friesland province. Johnny Foreigner must have been Marianne’s rapist and murderer, the xenophobes claimed.

First, there was talk about a refugee from Yugoslavia. Conveniently, at the time when NATO bombed Yugoslavia. Later it was suggested the rapist and murderer was an Iraqi refugee (by, eg, the Katholiek Nieuwsblad, a weekly representing the far Right wing of the Roman Catholic church). Or an asylum seeker from Afghanistan. Again, countries in which the Netherlands, being part of the NATO alliance, participated in wars. The murderer-rapist was non-white. The murderer-rapist was a Muslim, the bigots screamed. The police supposedly had not arrested murderous Johnny Foreigner because of anti-racist “political correctness”.

Police did extensive DNA research around Zwaagwesteinde village. Yesterday, they finally arrested a suspect of the Marianne Vaatstra murder. Was he a Yugoslav? an Iraqi? an Afghan? an African?

No, he was a 45-year old white farm owner living not so far away from the Vaatstra family. 100% DNA match, news sources say.

Will the racists now say they are sorry? Don’t count on it.

Peregrine falcons back in Friesland

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This video is called Birds – peregrine falcon dives at 180 mph.

Translated from Leeuwarder Courant daily in the Netherlands:

Peregrine falcon lays egg in nestbox in Noardburgum

Published on April 19, 2012, 09:57 Last updated on April 19, 2012, 12:01

Noardburgum – For the first time since very long ago, peregrine falcons are nesting in Friesland province again.

In the nestbox, which is 40 meters high on the power plant at the Burgumer Mar, a falcon this Wednesday has laid an egg.

The male half of the breeding pair is, visible from the coloured ring on its leg, one year old.

Webcam: http://www.roofvogelsinbeeld.nl

Unfortunately, there is wildlife crime against raptors‘ nests in Friesland. One can alarm the police about that at phone number 09008844 or 08006070.

Banding young peregrines in the USA: here. After the banding: here. And here.

120,000 Amur falcons massacred in 1 week in India: here.

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First Frisian raven nest since a century

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This video is called Common Raven (Corvus corax).

Translated from Natuurmonumenten in the Netherlands:

Ravenswoud raises first Frisian ravens

July 25, 2011

This summer, a couple of ravens have nested successfully for the first time in one hundred years in Friesland province. The birds chose the forests of Ravenswoud, adjacent to the Fochteloërveen nature reserve, as their home.

“The ravens have chosen this place for a reason,” says proud forester Martin Snip. “It will not be because of the name

Ravenswoud means Ravens’ Forest in Dutch

but because Natuurmonumenten in recent years has made the nature reserve considerably bigger.”

Eradicated

In the last century, the ravens in the Netherlands were exterminated by humans. In 1904, the last Frisian raven eggs were removed from the nest in Beetsterzwaag. Forty years ago, the raven was introduced in the Veluwe region.

in Gelderland province

“The ravens of Ravenswoud are descendants of ravens from Berkenheuvel, part of National Park Drents Friese Wold.

Big nature reserve

Like the ravens in Berkenheuvel, the first Frisian ravens chose a large nature reserve to breed. Two years ago, Natuurmonumenten transformed the Compagnonsveld, adjacent to the forests of Ravenswoud, into a nature reserve. “It’s so good to see how quickly that attracts new species.”

Fochtelooërveen butterflies: here.

Ravens remember relationships they had with others: here.