This June 2019 video is from De Onlanden nature reserve in Drenthe province in the Netherlands.
It is about a female stoat hunting on a bicycle track.
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Reed warbler sings, video
This May 2019 video is about a reed warbler singing in De Onlanden nature reserve in Drenthe province in the Netherlands.
Glossy ibises in nature reserve, video
This May 2019 video is about three glossy ibises in nature reserve De Onlanden in Drenthe province in the Netherlands.
They seem to be two parents and their (smaller, less glossy) youngster.
Great cormorants at their nests
This 7 March 2019 video shows great cormorants at their nests.
A. Snijder made this video in Drenthe province in the Netherlands.
Even Dutch right-wingers against Big Oil earthquakes
This 23 November 2016 Dutch Drenthe province regional TV video says about itself (translated):
Unrest among residents of Vries village because of natural gas extraction
VRIES- “We are afraid of Groningen scenes“, says a Vries resident. He is worried now that the NAM oil and gas company
The NAM, Nederlandse Aardolie Maatschappij, Dutch Oil Corporation, is a joint venture between the Shell and Exxon oil and gas corporations. Their gas extraction in Groningen province causes earthquakes, causing much material and health damage.
has announced that it will extract natural gas through a new well in an area that lies north of Assen.
This concern is shared by Armand Jennekens of the D66 party in Tynaarlo.
The local authority including Vries.
He fears a soil subsidence of 20 centimeters. “We are now emptying the gas field with the result that the total pressure will stop.”
Gas field Vries-Zuid
Natural gas has been extracted in the Vries-South gas field since the 1970s. A new well was drilled a year and a half ago to get the last 10 percent out of the field. That natural gas area runs from north Assen to Donderen. In the forty years that natural gas has already been extracted, the soil below Vries was lowered by 8 centimeters. …
Worried
At the fishmonger’s in Vries, gas extraction is the talk of the day. Residents are afraid of Groningen scenes. “I feel that gas is being extracted at all costs. We have to revolt.” And: “I think it really scares me by now.”
Protest
Armand Jennekens of D66 in Tynaarlo, together with the D66 faction of the House of Representatives, wants to stop gas extraction. Tynaarlo municipality is also protesting.
D66, a usually pro Big Business party (though not as anti-environment as the VVD), after that video was made, joined a four party right-wing government coalition, with just a one seat majority in the Dutch parliament.
The VVD is the biggest party in the coalition. They are a pro Big Business party, with close links to Shell and other fossil fuel corporations. So, I am not sure that at the national level D66 will now oppose the Vries gas extraction, because of the coalition.
Translated from Dutch NOS TV today, about Drenthe province:
Drenthe VVD politicians angry about gas extraction
VVD members in Drenthe are protesting against the recent gas extraction decision by Minister Wiebes. The minister, himself a member of the VVD, recently determined that the NAM can drill gas in small fields in North and Central Drenthe, among other places.
In an open letter to Wiebes and to the VVD in the House of Representatives, all twelve VVD municipal council caucuses in Drenthe demand that the decision be reconsidered. The council members emphasize that there is a lot of unrest among the residents. According to the letter writers, the residents will get a fair chance of earthquakes and thus of damage to their homes.
If the extraction would still have to continue, then the letter writers want the same damage protocol as in Groningen.
Many people in Groningen say the damage protocol is not enough.
A similar NAM gas extraction issue is near Monster town in South Holland province.
Bommelerwaard against Vermilion Energy gas extraction: here.
Three young roe deer in garden, video
Young buzzard’s life saved
This 28 June 2018 video from Drenthe province in the Netherlands is about a young buzzard, now in an artificial nest after falling from its parents’ nest.
Translated from Dutch NOS TV today:
Man builds artificial nest to save young buzzard
It is an artificial nest, but it saves a young buzzard in the Drenthe-Friesian Wold national park. Kees van der Klauw has built a nest for the young buzzard that had fallen from its own nest.
Van der Klauw found the young bird on the ground next to the tree where the parents have their eyrie. “Around the tree trunk under the nest I have attached plastic so that pine martens can not pass, branches hang over the nest so that the young buzzard is sheltered from other birds of prey, like the goshawk.”
Natural environment
Van der Klauw has asked advice from bird of prey expert Rob Bijlsma and says that this is an excellent solution. Young animals from the raptor shelter often do not survive because their parents do not teach them to hunt. Now the parents are still there and as soon as the young bird will be able to fly, it will go back to its parents.
That will take another week or three. Until then, Van der Klauw brings dead mice to the temporary nest in the morning and in the evening.
The young bird is between six and eight weeks old. How old exactly is hard to say due to the difficult start in life of the little buzzard. The parents did leave mice for it when it was on the ground, but it could not do anything with them, so maybe the youngster is small for its age. Meanwhile, however, it knows how to handle the mice that Van der Klauw brings.
He has engaged his circle of acquaintances to collect as many mice as possible. “I prefer to take them directly because my wife does not want them in the fridge”, he says to RTV Drenthe. In the coming weeks he will have an appointment with the young buzzard at least twice a day.
