Land "plentiful"

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Not only the cows love the land "to bits".

Niederrheiderland is also a popular resting and breeding area for geese and other feathered visitors. Up to 100,000 wild geese regularly make the Rheiderland the largest resting place in the whole country. In the past, most of them were only passing through and made a manageable stopover. Nowadays geese come earlier in the year and stay longer. For a long time the white-fronted goose dominated the Rheiderland. has been "outstripped" by the Barnacle Geese. This species of goose eats the grass

the grass radically. Such feeding damage poses great challenges and problems for agriculture. challenges and problems.

Many farmers therefore participate in contract-based nature conservation and other programmes and receive compensation payments. In this way, the farmer becomes a host farmer and protects and biodiversity at the same time. A good example of this is the protection of chicks and clutches ofof endangered meadow-nesting birds. These include species such as the lapwing, black-tailed godwit, snipe, skylark and whinchat. The farmers' efforts on behalf of these birds is already having an effect: ten percent of all German meadow-nesting birds are found in the Rheiderland. Or to put it another way: one in four lapwings is East Frisian.