Nature Cultural Landscape Culinary Heritage

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Nature Cultural Landscape Culinary Heritage

• Taking a historic view
• into the future

MANTRA-seminar in Salo 6th 10th of June 2007
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• Maintain the small and humble nature areas
• Noahs arks
• Do it with a historic point of departure
• Maintain them as production areas in cooperation
  with local action groups
• And first of all remember that sometimes
  nature is just another piece of Culture

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The 2010 Biodiversity Strategy in Denmark

• Preserving?
  Exploiting?

Big parks?
Small areas?
Natures worst enemy is Culture? Nature??
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Small areas in Denmark

• 345.000 ha. light-open 3 areas dependent on
  grazing or mowing.
• Heathlands, meadows, commons, bogs and moors,
  lakes
• 52 less than 1 ha.
• On 50 of the area no management
• Hedges, ditches, edges, stonefences, ..

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Historically based management

• Transportation of animals
• Transportation of materials
• Hay-cutting and grazing
• Removal of biological material
• Multi-purpose management

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Noahs ark as a production landscape

• Cow-grazers and hay-cutters
• Combining naturpreservation, local production and
  social life with
• commercial interests????

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Experiencing nature through the products .