Enhancing unique landscape
Borderless Bocage
A Bocage landscape is an ancient cultural landscape. It has a unique mosaic of landscape, heritage and nature values. Typical of this area is its small scale. Plot boundaries are marked by hedges, wooded banks or terraces. Our Bocage landscape crosses the border. This special area lies in the Voerstreek (Belgian Limburg), the Land of Herve (Belgian Wallonia) and Heuvelland (Dutch Zuid-Limburg).
The Bocage landscape is under pressure. This is due to increasing extreme weather conditions, such as floods and drought, and the loss of rare flora and fauna. Agriculture and intensive recreational and tourist use are also straining the landscape.
To solve these challenges, municipalities on both sides of the border are working together. Their common goal is a lasting, positive development of the area. A process that strengthens the identity and quality of the landscape. Because in addition to producing food and being hospitable, the landscape needs to become biodiverse and thus inhabited by different animals and equipped with different plants.
Moreover, the landscape should act as a sponge. During wet months, it will have to absorb water to then release it in dry months. With all these changes, the Bocage landscape will eventually become a foundation for the future. A future in which generations to come can permanently work, live and recreate in a healthy environment, experience quality of life and feel connected.
Have a further read at the website Bocagelandschap | Pays du Bocage.
When
2024 - 2027
Important partners
The Regional Landscape Haspengouw & Voeren (B), municipality of Voeren (B), municipality of Aubel (B), municipality of Dalhem (B), municipality of Plombières (B), municipality of Eijsden-Margraten (NL), municipality of Gulpen-Wittem (NL), municipality of Vaals (NL), Limburg Province (NL), Limburg Province (B), The Flemish Agency for Nature and Forest (B), the Walloon Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environment (B) and the Meuse-Rhine Euregio EGTS.