Naturpark Amager - Havneslusen Nord

This guide to Havneslusen Nord in Copenhagen's Naturpark Amager traces how a planned neighborhood of two thousand approved homes ran into a small green toad in 2021, when volunteers found protected amphibians in the scrub at the edge of Amager Faelled. It follows the legal fight that halted the bulldozers, and how this stretch of ground went from open sea to a military firing range before it became parkland at all. Climb the staircase behind the lock for a view over the reeds and the moored houseboats.