Volunteers from the Regional Landscape Westhoek are busy in various places with the knots of trees. They have been doing about fifteen years, with between 700 and 900 knot trees being tackled every year.
Yet this year is special, says Xavier Vlaemynck of the Regional Landscape Westhoek: “We work here along the Bellewaerdebeek and have come into contact with the people of Bellewaerde himself. They were looking for pruning waste that is normally no longer useful for the knots. Now it gets a second life as an enrichment for the giraffes. The prunings is brought directly to the park and hung on ropes, so that the animals can play with it and nibble it on. ”