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After 30 years, a Dutch river floodplain has become more than 5,500 hectares of new nature, and scientists say the Gelderse Poort shows how flood safety can support biodiversity recovery

A Dutch river landscape has spent decades being reshaped around a simple idea: instead of keeping the Rhine away from nature, give the river more room to behave like a river. In the Gelderse Poort, this approach has turned former agricultural floodplains into a connected landscape of wetlands, river channels, grasslands and woodland.

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