page_title: Oostvaardersplassen
section_title: Large herbivores
hierarchical_section_title: Oostvaardersplassen / Large herbivores
caption_attribution_description: English: A dead deer shot in the Oostvaardersplassen because it was too weak to survive. In order to prevent trophee hunters to enter the nature reserve, the deer are decapitated Nederlands: Een dood hert afgeschoten in de Oostvaardersplasssen omdat het te zwak was om te overleven. Om te voorkomen dat stropers het natuurgebied in trekken worden de herten onthoofd.
context_page_description: The Oostvaardersplassen is a nature reserve in the Netherlands, which is managed by the State Forestry Service. Covering about 56 square kilometres, it is noted as an experiment of rewilding. It is in a polder which was created in 1968; by 1989, its ecological interest had resulted in its being declared a Ramsar wetland. It became part of Nieuw Land National Park when it was created in 2018.
  The governing body is the Province of Flevoland and the management lies with Staatsbosbeheer.
context_section_description: Before they were driven to extinction, large herbivores in this part of Europe included the tarpan (wild horse), wisent (European bison), red deer  (elk or wapiti in North America) and aurochs (wild cattle). The tarpan and aurochs are extinct, but Konik ponies and Heck cattle are able to act as functional equivalents, occupying a similar ecological niche. The only native large herbivores now missing from Oostvaardersplassen are the elk (moose in North America), the wild boar and the wisent. There is a chance that the wild boar will find its way naturally from the Veluwe.
caption: Carcass of deer that had been shot because it was too weak to survive the winter
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