Etiket: Flanders
Flanders gained 656 hectares of forest in two years: “The hardest effort continues to find land for afforestation” | Inland
The Flemish government has the ambition to create 4,000 hectares of extra forest by the end of this term of office. After two years, 535 new forests have already been…
REPORTING. Between Maas and Albert Canal: “Flanders is the desert of Western Europe, but a ban on spraying would not help much”
The ongoing drought threatens our water supply, nature, agriculture and economy. What can we do about it and what else can we do? We are investigating it in the Meuse…
Land in Flanders has been repurposed more often into open space since 2020
Since 2020, more area classified as open space will be added in Flanders. This concerns land that was originally classified as an industrial or residential area and that is being…
From tomorrow code red for fire risk throughout Flanders
From tomorrow, code red will apply throughout Flanders, the highest possible risk code for wildfires. The Agency for Nature and Forests reports this to VTM NIEUWS journalist Karel Lattrez. Emergency…
West Flanders most popular with young people who want to buy a house
West Flanders most popular with young people who want to buy a house In the top 10 of the municipalities are no fewer than 5 West Flemish municipalities, mainly from…
Extra measures due to drought are also unavoidable in Flanders: “We need to think more carefully about how we deal with water” | VTM News
The Netherlands officially has a water shortage, and we are also threatened with extra measures if it does not rain in the next fourteen days. According to experts, Flanders should…
Large wallpaper bee spotted again in West Flanders
Large wallpaper bee spotted again in West Flanders During a bee inventory in 2020 at the provincial domain of Bergelen in Gullegem, a male specimen of the very rare large…
Ghent company with Marc Coucke as investor wins largest solar panel project ever in Flanders: 400,000 panels on 50,000 social homes | Economy
Twitter wants to do it with less office space: employees can work completely from home Twitter is going to reduce its office space worldwide now that a large part of…
Agricultural land achieves record price in West Flanders
Agricultural land achieves record price in West Flanders It is gradually becoming impossible for young agricultural entrepreneurs to expand. In our province, arable land is so sought after that wealthy…
Brit Jed Smithson wins Trophy of Flanders
Brit Jed Smithson wins Trophy of Flanders Lars Vanden Heede from Olsene is the man of the match. In the penultimate lap he first tries to get away with the…