The Kinsendael-Kriekenput reserve
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In Uccle, not far from the Calvoet train station, the Kinsendael nature reserve and its extensions to the east, the Kriekenput and the Herdies property, form a semi-natural space of remarkable diversity on more than 10 hectares: marshy or mixed forest, wet or tall grass meadowland, abandoned orchards, vacant land, springs, streams, and pond.
The first written mentions of occupation of the site go back to the Middle Ages.
The site management plan ensures its natural evolution by limiting maintenance to safety operations (pruning or felling dangerous trees), dredging ponds, mowing meadows in autumn and repairing the furnishings, fences and decks. Dead wood is not removed: it serves as a refuge for the fauna and a substrate for various types of mushrooms.
Japanese knotweed (an invasive exotic plant) is weeded out each year so that it does not spread.
The Kinsendael-Kriekenput site is an important link in the Brussels “blue network”. Part of the old pond has been reconstituted. Likewise, the Geleytsbeek has been reconnected to the Groelsbeek, which flows openly in the reserve.
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